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Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period: With an Essay on Chinese Sex Life from the Han to the Ching Dynasty, B.C. 206 - A.D. 1644, Volume One

By Robert Hans Van Gulik

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2004
ISBN
9004136649, 9789004136649
Google Books ID
DO1MQBNCTqIC
Open Library ID
OL9744149M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6759155 bytes)
Series
Sinica Leidensia 62
Pages
329\329
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In 1949, the sinologist Robert van Gulik purchased in a Tokyo curio-shop a set of printing blocks of a Ming erotic album. Two years later the album, with an extensive treatise, was published by van Gulik himself in a 50-copy print run and sent to a small group of sinological libraries, as "the erotic prints and other data ought not to fall into the hands of unqualified readers". It was to be the author's first work on the subject, preceding his groundbreaking "Sexual Life in Ancient China". Unqualified readers have now at last become qualified with this official edition. James Cahill, Wilt Idema and Soeren Edgren provide readers with introductions to its art historical, literary, biographical and book technical content.

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