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Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape changers who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, they were immoral succubi and good wives/good mothers, tricksters and Confucian paragons. Huntington investigates the fox as alien and attempts to establish the boundaries of the human.

Alien Kind Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative

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Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape changers who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the... Read more

    Publisher: Harvard University Press
    Publication Date: 2/3/2004 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780674010949, 978-0674010949
    ISBN10: 0674010949

    Number of Pages: 380

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape changers who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, they were immoral succubi and good wives/good mothers, tricksters and Confucian paragons. Huntington investigates the fox as alien and attempts to establish the boundaries of the human.

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