This startling collection of five erotic stories are from seventeenth-century Ming dynasty China, a period char-acterized by increasing industrialization and urbanization, which led to a more material society, and to a desire in the population to pursue luxury and pleasure.
Ling Mengchu’s stories are pre-occupied with sexuality and include a host of characters, including bold, aggressive, cunning, and seductive men, and highly passionate, sensual, and sexually insatiable women. The publication of
In the Inner Quarters
, for the first time ever in English, gives new life to the sensual pleasures of that era.
Dr. Lenny Hu
(Translator) has -translated Philip Roth’s
Goodbye, Columbus
and numerous other literary works. He was born in China and has taught at universities both in China and Canada.