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Portrait of a Chinese paradise : erotica and sexual customs of the late Qing period / John Byron.
LIBRA - Limited N8217.E6 B96 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, John--Art collections--Catalogs.
- Byron, John.
- Erotic art--China--Catalogs.
- Erotic art.
- Art, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912--Catalogs.
- Art, Chinese.
- Sex customs--China--History.
- Sex customs.
- Erotic art--Private collections--Catalogs.
- Art, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties.
- Art--Private collections.
- Erotic art--Private collections.
- China.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 82 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Quartet Books, 1987.
- Contents:
- Behind the Confucian mask
- Manchus and Mandarins
- Courtesans and Catamites
- Aesthetic origins
- Erotica, amusement and stimulation
- The cult of the lotus
- Opium and erotica
- Portrait of a Chinese paradise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-82).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Byron, John. Portrait of a Chinese paradise.
- ISBN:
- 0704326213
- 9780704326217
- OCLC:
- 28223287
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