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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

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 2 March 2004
      ISBN-13 9780674010949
      978-0674010949
      ISBN-10 0674010949
      Also in:
      Ghosts and poltergeists Folklore studies / Study of myth

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      Book Synopsis
      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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