This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Ascribed to a mysterious "Lanling xiaoxiao sheng" at its first publication in the early 1600s, the great novel Jin Ping Mei has been ...

Controversial and rich in sexual details, Jin Ping Mei, or The Plum in the Golden Vase, has been a taboo book in China for centuries. Composed during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) by an author using ...

Jin Ping Mei was one of the quartet of classic novels in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) before A Dream of Red Mansions replaced it in the subsequent Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). "It holds fifth position ...

Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, trans. from the Chinese by Clement Egerton, with Shu Qingchun. Tuttle Classics, $24.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-8048-4170-2 Anonymously authored under a pseudonym during the Ming ...

This book is in essence a feminist look at the Chinese erotic classic Jin Ping Mei, penned by a professor at Taiwan's National Central University. Jin Ping Mei was for long considered a pornographic ...

Established in 1978 (first issue in 1979), Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) remains today the only Western-language journal devoted to Chinese literature. CLEAR is published ...

This book is in essence a feminist look at the Chinese erotic classic Jin Ping Mei, penned by a professor at Taiwan's National Central University. Jin Ping Mei was for long considered a pornographic ...