Valuable Book gives Rare Insight into Eroticism in the Ming Dynasty Period

A valuable book is gifted to the University of Bonn, after 70 years. Handing over the book - ( from left ) Ralph Kauz, Thomas van Gulik and Aarnout Helb. Photo: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn all images in original size . The University of Bonn was recently gifted an extraordinary book, the donation of which had been promised 70 years ago by the since deceased Dutch ambassador and sinologist Robert van Gulik. The work is a volume titled "Erotic colour prints of the Ming Period: with an essay on Chinese sex life from the Han to the Ch'ing dynasty, B.C. A.D. 1644". The work was printed in Tokyo in 1951 in a limited edition of only 50 copies.