Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period : : Volume One.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia
• VerfasserIn: van Gulik, R. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.; ©2004.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 pages)

In 1949 the sinologist Robert van Gulik (also known now for his Judge Dee mysteries) 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 copies print run, sent to a small gr...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• VOLUME I
• Introduction to R. H. van Gulik, Erotic Colour Prints of the Late Ming Period
• A Bibliographical Note on van Gulik's Albums of Erotic Colour Prints
• "Blasé Literati": Lü T'ien-Ch'eng and the Lifestyle of the Chiang-nan Elite in the Final Decades of the Wan-li Period
• Introduction by R. H. van Gulik
• Chinese Preface
• Original Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Abbreviations
• PART 1: Historical Survey of Erotic Literature
• 1. The Han Period B.C. 206-A.D. 220 Fundamental Chinese Concepts of Sexual Intercourse
• 2. The Liu-ch'ao and Sui Periods 220-618 The Contents of the Handbooks of Sex
• Notes
• 3. The T'ang, Sung and Yüan Periods 618-1368 Medical Books on Sex Relations, and the beginnings of Pornography
• A. Medical Literature
• B. Pornographie Literature
• Notes
• 4. The Ming Period, 1368-1644 Flourishing of the Handbooks of Sex and Pornographic Literature
• A. Serious Literature
• 1. The "Family Instructions
• 2. Handbooks of Sex
• B. Fiction
• PART II: Historical Survey of Erotic Pictures
• 1. Early beginnings and Development up to the Ming Period
• 2. Erotic Art of the Ming Dynasty
• A. Erotic Paintings
• B. Erotic Book Illustrations
• C. Erotic Colour Prints
• PART III. Hua-ying-chin-chen
• Annotated Translation
• Appendix: Chinese Terminology of Sex
• Index
• Plates.