Clouds and Rain A Story of Old China【電子書籍】[ Dirk Hessian ]

＜p＞The life of a male prostituteーa jinanーin the Floating World of the Beautiful Way in ancient China in the waning years of the Chu dynasty, 200 BC, was a sensual but cruel, often foreshortened, bitter-sweet existence. The term “clouds and rain” was one that was used to denote sexual orgasm. This story weaves a complex, romantic, but also tragic tale of the lives of young male prostitutesーthose known as “bitten peaches” once they had been initiated into sex with another manーin a male brothelーthe Cut Sleeve Nanleshijiaーat the moment when men of the West came into contact with the Central Kingdom of China. “Clouds and Rain” strives to capture the essence of the deliciously euphemistic Oriental world of men making love to other men in China’s ancient past set against the advent of contact with the West and the more forceful and forthright of Western adventurers. Despite the cultural differences clashing together in the meeting of East and West here, the theme of the story is that all men ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る