Sex in the Palace – Backhouse, The Empress and Randy Old Morrison

Last weekend at the Beijing International Literary Festival a bunch of presumably horny little devils got together to talk about the sexual antics of the court and assorted foreigners in the dying days of the Qing Dynasty in Peking. Derek Sandhaus (who’s just edited and put out a new edition of Backhouse and Bland’s China Under the Empress Dowager), Linda Jaivin (who’s spicy novelisation of that dirty old sod Morrison of Peking’s lust life came out last year) and Lijia Zhang (who just likes talking about sex I think) all got together and discussed the shenanigans in the Forbidden City, Morrison’s untameable libido and Backhouse’s racy tome.

Missed it? so did I sadly, but someone recorded it and stuck it up on the web so you can listen to it here.