The Chinese Pleasure Book PDF book is popular Philosophy book written by Michael Nylan. The book was released by Princeton University Press on 2021-09-14 with total hardcover pages 317. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Chinese Pleasure Book by Michael Nylan in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body po
An examination of pleasure--short-term delight and the cultivation of longer-term satisfaction--in early Chinese thought. In The Chinese Pleasure Book, Michael
The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the Eu
"Drawing on the largest collection of erotic art in the world, this book initiates the reader into China's intimate "gardens of pleasure." Over one hundred of t
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time