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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Stent, G.C., Chinese Eunuchs: Or, the Origin, Character, Dress, Duties, and Preparation of the Castrati of China, Crerar Ms 252, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Typescript essay on the history of eunuchs in China. Includes holograph introduction by Charles Needham, with additional notes on castration in ancient Syria, Greece, and 19th-century Italy. Also includes printed copy of Stent's, Chinesische Eunuchen (Leipzig; Otto Schulze, n.d.); and a printed copy of Henry G. Anthony, "Cryptorchidism, with a report of two cases of natural eunuchs," from Journal of the American Medical Association, August 2, 1902.
Translated into English by Charles K. Needham, based upon the abridged German translation of Stent's paper, originally published in English as "Chinese Eunuchs," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. XI, (1877), p. 143-85.
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