Die Sammlung Wolfram Eberhard zur Populären Chinesischen Sittengeschichte
- Authors: Walravens H.1
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Affiliations:
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Free University of Berlin
- Issue: Vol 20, No 4 (2023)
- Pages: 106-111
- Section: Collections and Archives
- Published: 15.12.2023
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/622911
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.55512/WMO622911
- ID: 622911
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Abstract
The following list describes booklets which were banned in the 1960s in Hong Kong and Taiwan because of dealing with sexual topics. They were available only under the counter, did not enter libraries and official bibliographies and usually do not provide exact metadata. Most names are pseudonyms and the data on the place and year of publication are mostly missing. The Sinologist Wolfram Eberhard, who had dealt with similar subjects in his Guilt and Sin in Traditional China (Berkeley 1967) and The Daily Life of a Chinese Courtesan Climbing up a Tricky Ladder (Hong Kong 1980), possibly planned on also dealing with this popular material which he collected on his travels but he never found the time. Therefore, it is to be considered serendipitous that this little collection was acquired by the Bavarian State Library in Munich, probably the only library in the world to hold it.
About the authors
Hartmut Walravens
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Free University of Berlin
Author for correspondence.
Email: hartmutwalravens@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7418-6966
Dr., hab. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Free University of Berlin
Germany, BerlinReferences
- Walravens, Hartmut 1990 — “In Memoriam Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989)”. Oriens Extremus, 1990, n. 33(2), pp. 5–10, Porträt (in English).
- Walravens, Hartmut 2009 — Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989) — Sinologe, Ethnologe, Soziologe und Folklorist. Schriftenverzeichnis. Mit einer biografischen Einleitung. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 65) (in German).
- Sex Histories 1967 — China’s First Modern Treatise on Sex Education by Dr. Chang Ching-sheng (1888–1970); translated by Howard S. Levy. Yokohama, 1967 (in English).
- Frank Harris 1958 — My Life and Loves. Paris, 1958 (in English).