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What does collecting china from Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence mean?
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The character is implying that the Count is a "predatory" homosexual, using his money to obtain the services of young men of modest means. He objectifies both the female prostitutes the Count patronizes as well as his young male lovers as "china" or as things to be paid for, rather than people.
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