The present volume is a collection of selected papers of the international conference on “Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries,” organized by the Research Ce
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Richard Wang's Ming Erotic Novellas is path breaking in its attention to a virtually ignored body of literature that certainly influenced the writing of the Jin Ping Mei, the Sanyan vernacular stories