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Liminal Sexualities
2015
Overview
Tang Xiuhui embodied the ambiguous sexual status of the Republican Lady. She had a courtesan’s ease in front of the camera, as is apparent in the juxtaposition between her photograph in figure 6.1 and the courtesan portrait in figure 6.2. She also crossed a number of sexually charged lines in her personal life. Her marital position straddled that of concubine and wife, and on more than one occasion she physically traversed the border into the courtesan quarters of Beijing. Her lived experience and photographic practices signal the culmination of the tension between good women and fallen women, which had been
