The Fountainhead of Chinese Erotica : : The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction (Ruyijun zhuan), with a Translation and Critical Edition / / Charles R. Stone.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Context and Analysis
- 1. Pornography and the West
- 2. Precursors
- 3. Desire in the Ming Dynasty
- 4. Authorship
- 5. Speculations About Contemporary Events
- 6. Sources
- 7. Preface, Postscript, and Colophon
- 8. Later Works
- 9. The Moral
- Part Two: Translation and Original Text
- Annotated Translation
- Critical Edition
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index