Dame Wang's Dumplings: Mediating the Obscene in Manchu Translations of Erotic Literature at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century.

This article examines the surprising attention to taboo works of Chinese erotic literature within the corpus of early Manchu literary translations, focusing on the Manchu interpretations of Jinpingmei (The plum in the golden vase), Xixiang ji (The story of the western wing), and Rouputuan (The carna...

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Published in:	NAN NU -- Men, Women & Gender in Early & Imperial China Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 263 - 296
Main Author:	Vedal, Nathan
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2022
Subjects:	Erotic literature Literature translations Libraries & publishers Political persecution Hypersexuality
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost