The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China by Xiaofei Kang

The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

Xiaofei Kang

269 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction gender history dark informative slow-paced
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For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and comm...

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