Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780674010949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 380 str.

Rania Huntington

Opis

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.