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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
    Publication Date: 2/3/2004 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780674010949, 978-0674010949
    ISBN10: 0674010949
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    History 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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