Background
Fang-fu Ruan was born on May 26, 1937, in Ji-An, Jiangxi, China. He is the son of Chunsheng Ruan and Wang You’e.
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China today is sexually (and in many other ways) a very repressive so ciety, yet ancient China was very different. Some of the earliest surviving literature of China is devoted to discussions of sexual topics, and the sexual implications of the Ym and Yang theories common in ancient China continue to influence Tantric and esoteric sexual practices today far dis tant from their Chinese origins. In recent years, a number of books have been written exploring the history of sexual practices and ideas in China, but most have ended the discussion with ancient China and have not continued up to the present time. Fang Fu Ruan first surveys the ancient assumptions and beliefs, then carries the story to present-day China with brief descriptions of homosexuality, lesbianism, transvestism, transsexualism, and prostitution, and ends with a chapter on changing attitudes toward sex in China today. Dr. Ruan is well qualified to give such an overview. Until he left China in the 1980s, he was a leader in attempting to change the repressive attitudes of the government toward human sexuality. He wrote a best selling book on sex in China, and had written to and corresponded with a number of people in China who considered him as confidant and ad visor about their sex problems. A physician and medical historian, Dr. Ruan's doctoral dissertation was a study of the history of sex in China.
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1991
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Fang-fu Ruan was born on May 26, 1937, in Ji-An, Jiangxi, China. He is the son of Chunsheng Ruan and Wang You’e.
Ruan graduated from Beijing Medical University (formerly Medical School, Peking University, or Peking Medical College) with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1959. He also obtained his doctorate at Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 1991.
Ruan started his career as an assistant professor of the Department of Physiology at the Beijing Medical University in 1960. He held that position for 17 years until he started working as an assistant professor of the Department of Medical History. During the period from 1984 till 1985, Ruan also worked as an adjunct associate professor at Worker’s Medical College and as an adjunct professor of medical sociology of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Health Administration College. The same year Ruan went to the United States, where he started working first as a visiting associate professor of the Department of Sociology at Texas Tech University. From 1988 till 1989, he held the position of adjunct assistant professor at the School of Nursing of New York State University at Buffalo and was also a visiting professor of the Department of History there.
Since 1990, Ruan worked as a professor and vice-president at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland, California. He also worked as a professor and chair of the Department of Oriental Sexology at Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco since 1988.
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1991Ruan is considered a human rights activist in that he believes that knowledge about human sexuality and the freedom to express one’s own sexual preferences is a basic human right.
Ruan is a member of the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists, American Board of Sexology, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, North American-Chinese Sociologists Association, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) Alumni Association and American College of Sexologists.
Ruan is single and has no children.
