Jin Ping Mei was one of the quartet of classic novels in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) before A Dream of Red Mansions replaced it in the subsequent Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). "It holds fifth position ...

News of US sinologist David Tod Roy's passing at age 83 would probably not have caught the attention of media in China had it not been for the fact that he had translated one of the nation's most ...

Mencius once said: "The desire for food and sex is part of human nature." Now that recipes from China's most well-known piece of erotic literature Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) have been ...

David Tod Roy, a famous US sinologist, passed away in Chicago on May 30 according to thepaper.cn. Once a professor at Chicago University, Roy is best known as the translator for the English version of ...

This book is in essence a feminist look at the Chinese erotic classic Jin Ping Mei, penned by a professor at Taiwan's National Central University. Jin Ping Mei was for long considered a pornographic ...

The Jin Ping Mei, or 'The Plum in the Golden Vase,' is a classic of Chinese literature from the Ming dynasty that has been banned ever since the 17th century because of its explicit sexual content.

Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, trans. from the Chinese by Clement Egerton, with Shu Qingchun. Tuttle Classics, $24.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-8048-4170-2 Anonymously authored under a pseudonym during the Ming ...

Scenes from an erotic film were accidentally broadcast on a large LED screen near a railway station in Jilin city last week, attracting hundreds of curious onlookers. The film Xin Jin Ping Mei was ...