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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/deconstructing-late-ming-adult
 -magazine/
SUMMARY:Deconstructing a ‘late-Ming adult magazine’: questions of date\
 , design\, content\, and influence in "Springtime inspirations from the be
 dchamber as transmitted secretly by the Capital publisher" (京院秘傳
 洞房春意冊)
DESCRIPTION:\n	Wu Cuncun (Associate Professor of Traditional Chinese Litera
 ture and Cultural History\, School of Chinese\, The University of Hong Kon
 g\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair and discussant: Ellen Widmer (Mayling So
 ong Professor of Chinese Studies\; Professor of East Asian Studies\, Welle
 sley College)\n\n\n	In early 2008\, part of the collection of the famous J
 apanese collector of pornography Kiyoshi Shibui (1899-1993) resurfaced and
  was acquired by the Muban Foundation (London). Among the most valuable it
 ems from the Shibui collection are the late-Ming pornographic publications
 \, including several previously unseen and even unknown late-Ming colored 
 woodblock print albums and a volume of around sixty pages\, An alternative
  biography of Yang Taizhen: Capital edition (京刻楊太真外傳) or mor
 e properly Springtime inspirations from the bedchamber as transmitted secr
 etly by the Capital publisher (京院秘傳洞房春意冊). This last ite
 m is interesting as it contains an assortment of texts of various genres\,
  including two short erotic tales\, an album of thirty erotic woodblock pr
 ints\, and a set of aphrodisiac recipes running four pages. Unnoted in any
  catalogues\, this veritable late-Ming “adult magazine” appears to hav
 e been hidden from view for nearly the entire Qing dynasty as well as the 
 twentieth century.\n\n	Beginning with a consideration of a number of textu
 al issues surrounding the publication and format of this “adult magazine
 \,” including dating\, content\, printing specifications and its peculia
 rity\, Wu Cuncun will draw some preliminary conclusions regarding its read
 ership\, arguing that this volume shows traces of the change in audience f
 rom literati with libertine sensibilities to audiences associated with urb
 an mass consumption. She will also discuss how these observations relate t
 o her larger project of drawing attention to the wider participation of ur
 ban commoners as a market for pornography and the changes pornographic gen
 res underwent as a result of popularization\, consolidating our picture of
  city commoners’ public exchanges on “private life” in the late-Ming
  period.
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