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 ...

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 ...

News of US sinologist David Tod Roy's passing at age 83 would probably not have caught the attention of media in China had it not been for the fact that he had translated one of the nation's most ...

Mencius once said: "The desire for food and sex is part of human nature." Now that recipes from China's most well-known piece of erotic literature Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) have been ...