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Table 1. Contents of the material in Cherish Lives, organised by school grade
Figure 1. Illustration from Grade 1 of Cherish Lives, Volume 2, page 4. 男性外生殖器 = male external genitalia; 阴茎 = penis; 阴囊 = scrotum.
Figure 2. Illustration from Grade 1 of Cherish Lives, Volume 2, page 4. 女性外生殖器 = female external genitalia; 阴户 = vulva; 阴蒂 = clitoris; 阴唇 = labia; 阴道口 = vagina.
Figure 3. Illustration from Grade 2 of Cherish Lives, Volume 2, page 29. The girl is saying ‘Mum and dad, our neighbour, uncle Wang, just wanted to touch my buttocks; I said “no”’.
Figure 4. Illustration from Grade 2 of Cherish Lives, Volume 2, page 27. The woman is saying ‘Xiaojun, you have grown taller again. Take off your trousers and let aunt see if your penis has grown’.
Figure 5. Illustrations from Grade 3 of Cherish Lives showing the female reproductive system (Volume 2, page 6).
Figure 6. Illustration from Grade 5 of Cherish Lives showing the female reproductive system (Volume 2, page 3).
Figure 7. Illustrations in Grade 3 of Cherish Lives showing the male reproductive system (Volume 2, page 7).
Figure 8. Illustration from Grade 5 of Cherish Lives showing an erect penis (Volume 2, page 16).
Figure 9. Illustration from the Grade 3 book of Cherish Lives showing the clothing of boys and girls (Volume 1, page 23).
Figure 10. The cover of Volume 2 of the Grade 1 book of Cherish Lives showing a girl wearing pink and a boy wearing blue.
Figure 11. In Cherish Lives, females are sometimes shown with short hair but femininity can be indicated in other ways. Note the flower on the girl’s head band, the frilly edge to her jumper and other differences between the clothing of the girl and the boy, such as the more angular style of the boy’s collar (cover of Volume 2, Grade 4).
Figure 12. Long eyelashes can also be used to signify femaleness (Grade 1, Volume 2, page 4).
Figure 13. Both a man and a woman wearing aprons (Grade 3, Volume 1, page 16).
Figure 14. A boy wearing an apron, as well as both his parents (Grade 2, Volume 1, page 5).
Figure 15. The illustrations in Cherish Lives emphasise the link between heterosexual love, marriage and reproduction (grade 4, volume 2, page 44).
Figure 16. Same-sex desire as shown in one of the Grade 4 books (Volume 2, page 33).
Figure 17. Three pictures with the caption ‘Love is a beautiful relationship’; one shows two males, one shows a male and a female, and one shows two females (Grade 5, Volume 2, page 32).
Figure 18. Grade 6 illustration about same-sex marriage (Volume 1, page 44).
