The title page from the first volume of a Ming dynasty edition (collection of Yamaguchi University)
Author
Lü Tiancheng (呂天成)
Original title
繡榻野史
Translator
Lenny Hu
Language
Chinese
Publication date
c. 1600
Publication place
China (Ming dynasty)
Published in English
2001
Media type
Print
Pages
237
The Embroidered Couch
Traditional Chinese
繡榻野史
Simplified Chinese
绣榻野史
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Xiùtà Yěshǐ
Wade–Giles
Hsiu-t'a yeh-shih
Xiuta yeshi, translated into English as The Embroidered Couch,[a] is a Chinese erotic novel composed during the late Ming dynasty by playwright Lü Tiancheng (呂天成) under various pseudonyms. Believed to be one of the oldest Chinese erotic novels, Xiuta yeshi was first published at around the same time as Jin Ping Mei (The Golden Lotus). It has been constantly banned or censored since then, especially during the Qing dynasty. Literary critics have drawn attention to its obscenity and vivid descriptions of sex. A complete English translation by Lenny Hu was published in 2001.
^Vitiello 1994, p. 21.
^Wu & Stevenson 2011, p. 474.
^Hanan 1988, p. 123.
^Mair 2010, p. 665.
^Fang 2013, p. 87.
^Yao 2018, p. 44.
^Hinsch 2021, p. 86.
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