This piece was heavily inspired by Brad Sneed’s illustrations in “The Bravest of Us All” by Marsha Diane Arnold, a book I loved when I was a child. The etching was made using 0.5mm and 0.7mm ballpoint pens onto matteboard, which was then sealed and…
In this book McMahon explores late Ming vernacular fiction focusing on the exposition of sexual transgression and the ideology of the containment of desire. Related topics include the theme of causality and its role in the story's mapping of the…
Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in psychoanalytic and feminist criticism, the book examines how polygamous privilege functions in these novels and provides one of the first…
In this first cross-cultural study of opium in China, McMahon explores early Western observations of opium smoking, early definitions of addiction, the formation of arguments for and against the legalization of opium, the portrayals of opium smoking…