Jin Ping Mei, Plum in the Golden Vase

Today, in our third podcast in our series on toxic masculinity in Chinese literature, we examine Jin Ping Mei, the most important work of pornography in Chinese fiction. The novel is 100 chapters long, and it is dirty…the title itself refers to an event which is too dirty to discuss too much, but use your imagination. In this podcast, we dissect how the novel constructs masculinity in the late Ming.