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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...