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Director:
Man Kei Chin
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Release Date:
19 September 2008 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot Keywords:
Erotic | Sex | Martial Arts | Based On Novel
User Comments:
probably is worth it for the first half hour more (2 total)

Ding Naifei has written a highly original study of one of China's most important novels. An anonymous pornographic novel, Jin Ping Mei first circulated in China around 1600. It narrates in intricate detail the rise and fall of an urban merchant, Ximen Qing, his household and family. The novel is a rich historical source for scholars seeking knowledge on the intricacies of daily life in Ming China, as well as providing a ripping good yarn of deceit, ambition, revenge, and jealousy. It is replete with copious pornographic sexual interludes that ultimately warn of the dangers of women's sexuality and of excessive uncontrolled sexual activity. Jin Ping Mei has loomed large in the Chinese psyche for centuries and literary critiques of its significance are legion. Yet, until the publication of Ding's Obscene Things, women scholars of the novel have remained largely silent.