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Chinese Eunuchs
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This book traces the history of eunuchism from its very early days until November 5, 1924, when the system was finally banned and hundreds of eunuchs, "crying p
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The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
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A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.