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

Kang, Xiaofei

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231225970 ISBN 13 : 9780231225977

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2026

Synopsis

For more than five centuries, the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population across social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China.

Xiaofei Kang examines this cult as a vibrant popular religion, exploring the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society. Kang describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people have constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of official power and morality.

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Xiaofei Kang is professor of world religions and history at the George Washington University. She is coauthor of Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland (2016) and author of Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953 (2023).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231225970
• ISBN 13: 9780231225977
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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