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Ming Erotic Novellas
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Author : Richard G Wang
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2011-03-13
Ming Erotic Novellas written by Richard G Wang and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Richard Wang's Ming Erotic Novellas is path breaking in its attention to a virtually ignored body of literature that certainly influenced the writing of the Jin Ping Mei, the Sanyan vernacular stories, and most likely Li Yu's fiction. Compared to other titles in the field, this is the first scholarly monograph in any language to contextualize the erotic novellas of late imperial China. Moreover, existing studies in this area have tended to concentrate on a limited number of works of Chinese erotic fiction, or have only brushed up against these works tangentially during more general discussion of Ming and Qing literature. Ming Erotic Novellas adopts a provocative approach to fiction, moving beyond the traditional textual analyses of gender politics and the qing cult, and examining these erotic novellas as a new genre within the contexts of print culture, readership, consumption patterns, as well as religious dimensions. Ming Erotic Novellas focuses on a group of mid to late Ming literary (wenyan) novellas, which are all stories of erotic romance. These novellas include a profusion of poems mixed with prose narratives that are characterized by "simple" literary Chinese, with a tendency toward the vernacular. Their plots are complex, with some running 20,000 characters or more, allowing for nuanced character development, rich dialogue, and psychological description. Circulated widely during the Ming, the novellas had a significant impact on later erotic and "scholarbeauty" (caizi jiaren) novels. This particular group of novellas was of great importance in the development of Chinese fiction, functioning as a transitional link between the classical tale to the vernacular novel. By approaching these works through the lens of a cultural study, Wang is able to explore the social functions of the novellas as well as their significance in the development of Chinese fiction in the Ming cultural context.
Of Woman By Woman
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Author : R. W. L. Guisso
language : en
Publisher: Asian Thought and Culture
Release Date : 2011
Of Woman By Woman written by R. W. L. Guisso and has been published by Asian Thought and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Chinese fiction categories.
The last century of Ming rule (1368-1644) in China saw an unparalleled and short-lived loosening of the restraints of conventional Confucian morality in both art and literature, and the two novellas translated in Of Woman by Woman are representative of that trend. Both were written under pseudonyms, and although there is evidence that both appeared first in the mid to late sixteenth-century, neither their authorship nor publication date can be established with any precision. Both were proscribed in the eighteenth-century literary inquisition of the Qianlong emperor, and remained banned in China until copies first appeared on the Internet in the 1990s. They are still largely unknown there, and hence have received scant attention from scholars both in East and West. Both, however, are milestones in China's literary history. The first, Lord of Perfect Satisfaction (Ruyijun zhuan), recounts the amours of China's one and only female emperor, Wu Zetian, who exercised power for her incompetent husband for almost three decades in the glorious Tang dynasty. In 690, she overthrew the Tang and proclaimed herself the «Holy and Divine Emperor,» of a new Zhou dynasty which she ruled until her forced abdication and the Tang restoration in 705. History tells us that after she was widowed, she embarked upon a number of sexual liaisons, and throughout her sixties and into her seventies enjoyed a series of young lovers. The boudoir scenes in the novella constitute China's earliest examples of wholly explicit carnality, and can thus be regarded as the «fountainhead» of Chinese eroticism. The second, Memoir of a Crazy Old Woman (Chipozi zhuan), appeared a few decades later and, in semi-autobiographical style, tells the tale of an upper-class woman whose sexual appetites lead her to ruin and a reclusive old age. In this single work, we see the full spectrum of sexual decadence in the late-Ming - seduction and rape, group sex and incest, and even an encounter with a Buddhist abbot. In spite of the pseudonym «Madame Hibiscus», previous commentators have stubbornly refused to believe that a female could have penned such an erotic, even «pornographic», work. The translators challenge this view, suggesting that this is the earliest work of erotica in world literary history whose author was, indeed, a woman.
Creating Artifacts
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Author : Richard G.. Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Creating Artifacts written by Richard G.. Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Chinese fiction categories.
Erotic Colour Prints Of The Ming Period
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Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004
Erotic Colour Prints Of The Ming Period written by Robert Hans van Gulik and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
China S Sexual Awakening
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Author : Elly P. Ham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
China S Sexual Awakening written by Elly P. Ham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
The Embroidered Couch
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Author : Lu Tiancheng
language : en
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
The Embroidered Couch written by Lu Tiancheng and has been published by Arsenal Pulp Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Fiction categories.
A book that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows, The Embroidered Couch is the first English translation of an erotic novel originally published in the early 17th century, attributed to Lu Tiancheng (b. 1580). Regarded as a notorious classic in Chinese literature, it has long been banned in China, and never been available in English.
The Fountainhead Of Chinese Erotica
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Author : Charles R. Stone
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2003-03-31
The Fountainhead Of Chinese Erotica written by Charles R. Stone and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction (Ruyijun zhuan), a short work of fiction from the early sixteenth century, tells the story of the Tang dynasty's notorious Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule as emperor of China. It is famous not for the history it relates, but for its graphic sexual descriptions--the first ever in a Chinese novel--purportedly given from a woman's point of view. Despite its renown and unmistakable influence on later writing, the origins and significance of the Ruyijun zhuan have never been explored, in any language, and until now it has never been translated. Its date of composition is unknown, its author unidentified. One of its earliest appraisals, written by a contemporary scholar known for his conservatism, maintains that the Ruyijun zhuan is a moral work notwithstanding its sexual content. Combining a complete translation with a detailed and far-ranging study of the text, The Fountainhead of Chinese Erotica places this important cultural document into historical context and offers possibilities on its meaning.
In The Inner Quarters
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Author : Mengchu Ling
language : en
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Release Date : 2003
In The Inner Quarters written by Mengchu Ling and has been published by arsenal pulp press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
A collection of five erotic stories from Ming dynasty China, in English for the first time.
Misers Shrews And Polygamists
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Author : Keith McMahon
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1995
Misers Shrews And Polygamists written by Keith McMahon and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Family & Relationships categories.
Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. In many examples of rare erotic fiction, and in other works as well-known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Keith McMahon identifies a sexual economy defined by the figures of the "miser" and the "shrew"--caricatures of the retentive, self-containing man and the overflowing, male-enervating woman. Among these and other characters, the author explores the issues surrounding the practice of polygamy, the logic of its overvaluation of masculinity, and the nature of sexuality generally in Chinese society. How does the man with many wives manage and justify his sexual authority? Why and how might he escape or limit this presumed authority, sometimes to the point of portraying himself as abject before the shrewish woman? How do women accommodate or coddle the man, or else oppose, undermine, or remold him? And in what sense does the man place himself lower than the spiritually and morally superior woman? The most extensive English-language study of Chinese literature from the eighteenth century, this examination of polygamy will interest not only students of Chinese history, culture, and literature but also all those concerned with histories of gender and sexuality.
Erotic Colour Prints Of The Ming Period
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Author : Robert Hans Van Gulik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Erotic Colour Prints Of The Ming Period written by Robert Hans Van Gulik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Art categories.