"The Structure of Eunuch and Courtier Politics" Chuko Shinsho Yasuke Mitamura There is one crease mark. #Eunuchs #YasukeMitamura #ChineseHistory #Emperor #ForbiddenCity #Castration ------------------------------------------------- (Contents) What is a eunuch? Why did they, in a society with strict class distinctions, serve in the imperial harem and monopolize power as close advisors to the emperor? Conventional general histories have not provided clear answers to these questions. This book, focusing on China, where this existence coexisted with autocracy for the past four thousand years, reveals its true nature for the first time. The elucidation of this strange organization is sure to provide a new perspective on the present day. (Table of Contents) Chapter 1: The Created Third Sex (Eunuchs, the Incomprehensible; The Origin of Eunuchs; How to Castrate; The Ecology of Eunuchs; The Reason for the Existence of Eunuchs; The Shadow of the Monarch, Eunuchs; The Source of Eunuchs; Castration; Eunuch Specialty Areas; The Flood of Eunuch Aspirants) Chapter 2: Residents of the Imperial Harem (122 Empresses and Concubines; A Set of Marriage Systems; The Birth of a Wife-Fearing Husband; The Inner Depths of the Forbidden City; The Duties of Eunuchs; The Respectful Affairs Room Eunuch; Rampant Female Officials; Eunuch Couples; The Fate of Eunuchs) Chapter 3: Two Courtiers Who Destroyed the Empire - Former Han and Later Han (The Emperor on a Eunuch's Lap; The Obsessive Empress Dowager; Sima Qian, the Originator of Secretaries; The Eunuch's Daughter Who Became Empress; The Formation of the Eunuch Organization; Between the Emperor and Ministers; Relatives of the Empress and Eunuchs; The Tragedy of Good Intentions; Chivalrous Eunuchs; The Eunuch Era) Chapter 4: Women's Disasters and Eunuchs - Tang (Chang'an, the City of Beauty and Immorality; A New Type of Wise Ruler; An Unprecedented Woman; Emperor Xuanzong and Gao Lishi; Control of the Imperial Guard; The First Eunuch Prime Minister; Emperor Assassination; The Eunuch's View of the Monarch) Chapter 5: Bureaucrats and Eunuchs - Ming (The Proxy of a Dictatorial Monarch; The Failed Eunuch Control Policy; Eunuch Schools; The Shadow Cabinet; Clear Streams and Muddy Streams; The Eunuch Party's Domination; The Last Eunuch)"