Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period

Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period with an essay on Chinese Sex life from the Han to the Ching Dynasty, B.C. 206 - A.D. 1644. The writings of Dutch diplomat and author Robert Hans van Gulik (1910-1967) reveal his considerable talents as a storyteller as well as the conscientious scholarship and varied interests that characterized his life. His nonfiction works cover a broad range of subjects from Chinese culture, folklore, art, and music, such as Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur, Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period, and The Gibbon in China.