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 ...

Controversial and rich in sexual details, Jin Ping Mei, or The Plum in the Golden Vase, has been a taboo book in China for centuries. Composed during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) by an author using ...

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 ...

Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, ...

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 ...