Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period : Volume One / Gulik.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Asian Studies - Book Archive 2000-2006 | Sinica Leidensia ; 62/1.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9789004136649
- 9789004531604
- Volume One
- 769/.428/0951 23
- NE962.E6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / R.H. van Gulik -- Introduction to R. H. van Gulik, Erotic Colour Prints of the Late Ming Period / James Cahill -- A Bibliographical Note on van Gulik’s Albums of Erotic Colour Prints / J. S. Edgren -- “Blasé Literati”: Lü T’ien-Ch’eng and the Lifestyle of the Chiang-nan Elite in the Final Decades of the Wan-li Period / Wilt L. Idema -- Introduction / R.H. van Gulik -- Chinese Preface / R.H. van Gulik -- Contents / R.H. van Gulik -- List of Illustrations / R.H. van Gulik -- List of Abbreviations / R.H. van Gulik -- The Han Period B.C. 206–A.D. 220 / R.H. van Gulik -- The Liu-Ch‘ao and Sui Periods A.D. 220–618 / R.H. van Gulik -- The T’ang, Sung and Yüan Periods A.D. 618–1368 / R.H. van Gulik -- The Ming Period, A.D. 1368–1644 / R.H. van Gulik -- Early Beginnings and Development up to the Ming Period / R.H. van Gulik -- Erotic Art of the Ming Dynasty / R.H. van Gulik -- Hua-Ying-Chin-Chen [CHINESE TEXT] Annotated Translation / R.H. van Gulik -- Appendix Chinese Terminology of Sex / R.H. van Gulik -- Index / R.H. van Gulik -- Plates / R.H. van Gulik.
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. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004131606).
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