Yufang mijue
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Yufang mijue (Chinese: 玉房秘訣), translated into English as Secrets from the Jade Chamber,[1] Secret Formulae from the Jade Alcove,[2] or Secret Instructions from the Jade Chamber,[3] is a Chinese sex manual composed during the Han dynasty.
Written during the Han dynasty,[4] the original text is lost, though it was partially preserved in the Japanese medical text Ishinpō (醫心方).[5] In 1903, Chinese sexologist Ye Dehui (葉德輝) published an almost fully reconstructed version of Yufang mijue, alongside four other ancient Chinese texts on sexuality; this was not well-received by the public, and in 1927 the Chinese Communist Party executed Ye for being a "counter-revolutionary".[6]