Naifei Ding argues that this cultural formation is the product of specific reading strategies, influentially championed by Zhang Zhupo in his commentarial edition of the novel of 1695. It features a wealth of original insights and poses a number of crucial questions that point at previously uncharted critical directions within Jin Ping Mei (hereafter JPM) studies, while contributing at the same time to a growing body of scholarship on late Ming and early Qing culture, in particular on the emergence of the book market and the role that intellectuals played in it.Ībove all, the book can be said to be about Pan Jinlian and the destiny of a fictional character that ends up crystallizing the ultimate, haunting version of dangerous femininity: the sexy murderer.
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