# Ch’ing, a Chinese Book of Love, Vol. 1

By **John Minford**

- ISBN-13: 9781836391944
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 416
- Published: 1 Jun 2026

## About this book

This landmark anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the rich tradition of Chinese writing on love – sensuous, romantic and ecstatic – from early classics like the Book of Songs to twentieth-century modernist verse. Challenging the stereotype of Chinese literature as stiffly Confucian, it celebrates

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