Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period. Volume One / R. H. van Gulik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967, author.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 62.

Sinica Leidensia Series ; Volume 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color prints, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.

Color prints, Chinese.

Erotic literature, Chinese.

Erotic prints, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.

Erotic prints, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill N.V., [2004]

Summary:

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 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 (new edition, Brill, 2002). Unqualified readers have now at last become qualified with this official edition. James Cahill, Wilt Idema and Soeren Edgren provide readers with indispensable introductions to its art historical, literary, biographical, and book technical context.

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

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.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: van Gulik, van Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period

ISBN:

9789004531604

OCLC:

1348487615