Alien kind : foxes and late imperial Chinese narrative / Rania Huntington.
Alien kind : foxes and late imperial Chinese narrative / Rania Huntington.
Alien kind : foxes and late imperial Chinese narrative / Rania Huntington.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N895.10936/2
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English
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370 p. 24 cm.
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1. Species History, Genre History -- 2. The High Qing: Fox Practice and Theory -- 3. Haunting and Residence -- 4. Fox Worship -- 5. Foxes and Sex -- 6. The Fox Romance -- 7. Becoming Xian, Arousing Yao: Foxes and Meaning.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.
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Massachusetts
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2003.
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"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 parag...
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Alien kind : foxes and late imperial Chinese narrative / Rania Huntington.
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Foxes and late imperial Chinese narrative.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 222.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-362) and index.
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N895.10936/2
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74VvlB8DyXrO
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0674010949 (alk. paper)
9780674010949 (alk. paper)
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895.1093629775
895.109374
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991017537149702626
