The Hong Kong Bookseller Who Got ‘Disappeared’ Has Re-Released Pre-Modern China’s Dirtiest, Kinkiest Novel

“When associates at Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong went missing about two years ago – and its scandalous books about mainland Chinese politicians were destroyed not long after – Woo Chih-wai thought he’d lost everything.” Reporter Vivienne Chow recounts how, partly to earn some money back, he republished a very long, very graphic erotic novel from the 1730s titles Preposterous Words.