Alien kind: foxes and late imperial chinese narrative
Auteur :
Huntington, Rania
Éditeur :
Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN :
9780674010949
Date de publication :
1 mars 2004
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 3,2 cm
Poids :
685 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.