Transmigration of the World and Spring Dreams: A Comparison of Sexual Cultures Between China and Japan

Author: Liu Daling
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: "Floating World and Spring Dreams" is richly illustrated and appealing to both the refined and the popular. Using a comparative approach to study Chinese and Japanese sexual cultures, it is a pioneering work. Sex and culture are like the relationship between a bottle and wine. For the Japanese, sex is the bottle and culture is the wine, such as "Ukiyo-e" and "Kabuki." For the Chinese, culture is the bottle and sex is the wine, such as "Spring Palace Pictures" and "Room of Techniques." Why? Professor Liu Daling has spent decades of effort to unravel this mystery for us. "Floating World and Spring Dreams" is richly illustrated and appealing to both the refined and the popular. Using a comparative approach to study Chinese and Japanese sexual cultures, it is a pioneering work. Sex and culture are like the relationship between a bottle and wine. For the Japanese, sex is the bottle and culture is the wine, such as "Ukiyo-e" and "Kabuki." For the Chinese, culture is the bottle and sex is the wine, such as "Spring Palace Pictures" and "Room of Techniques." Why? Professor Liu Daling has spent decades of effort to unravel this mystery for us.