{"product_id":"obscene-things-9780822329169","title":"Obscene Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, this title can contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ding’s reading of \u003ci\u003eJin Ping Mei\u003c\/i\u003e is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup.”—\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eMaram Epstein, University of Oregon\u003cbr\u003e“In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist\/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a ‘porous intimacy’ with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist ‘counter-ethics’ of reading, \u003ci\u003eObscene Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of \u003ci\u003eJin Ping Mei\u003c\/i\u003e will inspire anyone concerned with the \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power.”—Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University\u003cbr\u003e“Those who read Ding’s investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again.”—Robert E. Hegel, author of \u003ci\u003eReading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part One: Practices \u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eJin\u003c\/i\u003e-ology\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Manic Preface: Jin Shengtan’s (1608-1661) \u003ci\u003eShuihu zhuan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. A Cure for Melancholy: Yuan Hongdao (1558-1610) and \u003ci\u003eQifa\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSeven Stimuli\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003e 4. Tears of Resentment: Zhang Zhupo’s (1670-1698) \u003ci\u003eJin Ping Mei\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Intervention \u003cbr\u003e 5. Seduction: Tiger and Yinfu \u003cbr\u003e 6. Red Shoes, Foot Bindings, and the Swing \u003cbr\u003e 7. A Cat, a Dog, and the Killing of Livestock \u003cbr\u003e 8. Very Close to Yinfu and Enu; or, How Prefaces Matter for \u003ci\u003eJin Ping Mei\u003c\/i\u003e (1695) and \u003ci\u003eEnu Shu\u003c\/i\u003e (Taipei, 1995) \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Glossary \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030053719,"sku":"9780822329169","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329169.jpg?v=1730494301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/obscene-things-9780822329169","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}