In the Inner Quarters: Erotic Stories from Ling Mengchu's Two Slaps

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.