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.
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 creat...
How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This study shows how members of the Yu family passed down their memories over five generations, through the traumatic transition from imperial to modern China and amidst the change and destruction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its ...
