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). …
What happens when historiography—the way historical events are committed to writing—shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly …
The long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its possibilities than southern …
