Chin Ping-mei as a Sexual Novel : On Omni-bearing Revelation of Acolasia in Late Ming Dynasty

Chin Ping mei is neither a political novel which describes the dark society and corrupted officials and opposes feudalism and corruption, nor the one about economy which describes the tragedy of the new-rising merchants. Instead, it is a sexual novel, which reveals omnibearing acolasia tone of the society of late Ming Dynasty. It is of great value in history of Chinese sexual culture, ancient Chinese novels, novelistic art development, and social development of China.