Ruan Fangfu

Ruan Fangfu (1935 to 5 January 2025), also written Fang Fu Ruan, was a Chinese physician, medical historian and human rights activist from Jiangxi, China. He became known for extensive research into the relationship between Chinese culture and sexuality, and his publications in the early to mid 1980s are credited with helping to change Chinese public opinion on sexuality and with influencing the creation of private and state sexology and family planning organizations. In the United States he worked as a researcher and professor at Texas Tech University and at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He edited and wrote A Chinese Manual of Sex Knowledge (1985), and his best known work is Sex in China: Studies in Sexology in Chinese Culture (1991). He was also a member of the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality.