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03434aam a2200481 i 4500 001 0A689FBAC48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 220803t20232023maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022035946 020 $a 0674291352 020 $a 9780674291355 035 $a (OCoLC)1344422819 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a PL2275.E74 $b M35 2023 082 00 $a 895.13/46 $2 23/eng/20221004 100 1 $a McMahon, Keith, $e author. 245 10 $a Saying all that can be said : $b the art of describing sex in Jin Ping Mei / $c Keith McMahon. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Asia Center, $c 2023. 300 $a xiv, 287 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series; $v 134 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-275) and index. 505 0 $a Saying All That Can Be Said -- Jin Ping Mei and the Art of the Bedchamber -- The Language of Sex in Jin Ping Mei -- Sex as Battle -- Graphic Description in Jin Ping Mei -- Different Sex with Different Women -- The Ways of Being Pornographic. 520 $a "In Saying All That Can Be Said, Keith McMahon presents the first full analysis of the sexually explicit portrayals in the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase). Countering common views of those portrayals as "just sex" or as "bad sex," he shows that they are rich in thematic meaning and loaded with social and aesthetic purpose. McMahon places the novel in the historical context of Chinese sexual culture, from which Jin Ping Mei inherits the style of the elegant, metaphorical description of erotic pleasure, but which the anonymous author extends in an exploration of the explicit, the obscene, and the graphic. The novel uses explicit description to evaluate and comment on characters, situations, and sexual and psychic states of being. Echoing the novel's way of taking sex as a vehicle for reading the world, McMahon celebrates the richness and exuberance of Jin Ping Mei's language of sex, which refuses imprisonment within the boundaries of orthodox culture's cleanly authoritative style, and which continues to inspire admiration from readers around the world. Saying All That Can Be Said will change the way we think about sexual culture in pre-modern China"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Xiaoxiaosheng. $t Jin Ping Mei ci hua. 650 0 $a Erotic literature, Chinese $y 16th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Chinese literature $y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Sex in literature $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Sex and history $z China. 630 07 $a Jin Ping Mei ci hua (Xiaoxiaosheng) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01362088 650 7 $a Chinese literature $x Ming dynasty. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01906862 650 7 $a Erotic literature, Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914809 650 7 $a Sex and history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114251 650 7 $a Sex in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114464 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 648 7 $a 1368-1644 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; $v 134. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012546.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A689FBAC48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search