An analysis of Taiwan’s Pederasty phenomenon in Qing dynasty

• Main Authors: Liu,Kang-Ying, 劉岡穎
• Other Authors: Fang,Chen-Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zj4v69

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 106 === Abstract After Shi Lang attacked Taiwan in 1683, the Qing Dynasty was formally incorporated Taiwan into the territory of China in the following year. In Fujian Province, due to a lot of mountains and few farmlands, there was a ban on the crossing of Taiwan Strait in the early Qing Dynasty. Early times who move to Taiwan mostly were southern Fujian bachelor. After lifting the ban, the number of Cantonese migrants to Taiwan gradually increased. However, most people generally do not know that as early as in the Qing Dynasty in Taiwan, there were already cases of sodomy and there were many cases of male homosexual crimes. Behind these cases are not only the history of bitterness from the early immigrants to the grass roots society in Taiwan, but also many cases related to the rampant piracy off the coast of Taiwan at the time. This paper mainly uses the official archives of the Qing Dynasty to discuss the relationship between the reclamation of Taiwan and men’s style and the types of men’s sentiment as well as their age and occupation. Piracy rages along the coast of Taiwan and the resulting gay issues. In addition, these sodomy cases are also discussed. The results of this study found that the majority of men in the emotional style of money together. In terms of both age and occupation, sinner’s age is predominately over 30 years of age, and sodomy is mostly in his teens to twenties. Economically, the majority of be sodomy are still more vulnerable than sodomites. This also reflects the hard life of Taiwan’s reclamation society during the Qing Dynasty. Some Chinese who came to Taiwan make a hard-earned living by supplying their daily necessities through an older person of better financial ability. Second, the piracy of sodomy is considered a ritual of engagement, which requires the sodomy to become a member of the pirate world. In general, the criminal responsibility of buggery offender who committed crimes by soldiers and civilians in the Qing dynasty were mostly sentenced "One month of flail, one hundred sticks". However, the government also considered the age of those who were sodomy and considered the case for the refused to sodomy, so as to reduce it more leniently than prescribed by the Qing law. However, when it comes to piracy, the official sentencing does not take into account that a person who is sodomy in a pirate ship is a last resort. "Since you are on a bandit boat, that is, non-good kind" summarize the principle of criminal convictions, and these people will be able to avoid the death penalty, but such criminals will not be able to escape the crime.