Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative

by Rania Huntington

To discuss the supernatural in China is "to talk of foxes and speak of ghosts." Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, foxes were both immoral succubi and good wives/good mothers, both tricksters and Confucian paragons. They were the most alien yet the most common of the strange creatures a human might encounter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010949
• ISBN13: 9780674010949
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"