Censoring sexuality in Late Imperial China
How did late imperial Chinese writers navigate the Qing Dynasty’s shifting landscape of censorship?
With the compilation of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (1772-1783), the Qianlong reign (1735-1796) bore witness to the largest project for book collection in Chinese history. This state-sponsored project imposed wide-ranging censorship on the assembled titles, and more generally subjected cultural productions under the imperial eyes.