Chipozi zhuan

However, her "misdeeds" with the young man were exposed to her husband by her brothers-in-law and father-in-law (as well as by the various men around her who had sexual relations with her for many years).

[10][11] Chipozi zhuan was "compiled" or written by an anonymous writer using the pseudonym "Lotus Lord" or "Madame Hibiscus" (芙蓉主人) and edited by a "Passion-Infatuated Philosopher" (情痴子).

[12] It was composed in Classical Chinese[13] during the mid- to late sixteenth century, at about the same time that Jin Ping Mei was published.

[1] Wu Cuncun states that Chipozi zhuan "can be regarded as an early representative work in narrating a series of sexual adventures of a woman from an unexceptional and relatively modest urban household.

Guisso and Lenny Hu view that Chipozi zhuan might be "the earliest work of erotica in world literary history" by a female writer.

Inside pages from a copy of Chipozi zhuan from the Shanghai Library
Pages from a copy of Chipozi zhuan from the Harvard-Yenching Library