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Vietnamese women according to Edward H. Schafer are thought of as erotic and promiscuous in their behavior. The Chinese believed the level of culture was not as sophisticated in the south as was theirs. As early as the Han period the Chinese thought the female spirit was unnatural and it was unusual that the “wanton female is dominant”. (Schafer 80) To the Chinese the south had always been a place with erotic women. The assumption that these people had not yet learned the proper civilized morals of sexual repression is evident in numerous literary works. The south wa

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