TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gulik
TI  - Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period: Volume Two 
T2  - Asian Studies - Book Archive 2000-2006
SN  - 9789004136656
AV  - NE962.E6 
U1  - 769/.428/0951 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Color prints, Chinese
KW  - Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
KW  - Erotic literature, Chinese
KW  - Erotic prints, Chinese
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004531611
ER  -