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The Cult of the Fox

2006 History
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Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Cult of the Fox by : Xiaofei Kang

Download or read book The Cult of the Fox written by Xiaofei Kang. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, the first to examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion, Xiaofei Kang explores 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 constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of offical power and morality.

Power on the Margins

2000
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Release : 2000
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Book Synopsis Power on the Margins by : Xiaofei Kang

Download or read book Power on the Margins written by Xiaofei Kang. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The White Fox

2012-07-01 Fiction
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Release : 2012-07-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The White Fox by : James

Download or read book The White Fox written by James. This book was released on 2012-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future so distant that time is almost without meaning, death is defeated and immortality has been made reality through instantaneous cloning and synaptic transfer. Mankind, frustrated by the futility of timeless existence, chooses extinction. All but one man. Far removed from the known universe with only one companion, an AI named Qod, Salem Ben watches the cosmos from afar and relives the digitally reproduced lives of countless souls archived in the Soul Consortium by means of a neuroimmersive device. He hopes to discover the answer to the ultimate question: What lies beyond? But at the birth of the next universe, billions of years before the pattern of life repeats its design, Salem’s quest takes a disturbing turn. Unexplained aberrations appear among the digital souls. To hunt down their source and to continue his search for evidence of life after death, Salem endures four very different lives: Orson Roth, a serial killer in 20th-century Britain; Dominique Mancini, a spiritual medium from 16th-century Lombardy; Plantagenet Soome, a monk sent to the distant Castor’s World; and Queen Oluvia Wade, the creator of the Soul Consortium. As the mystery unfolds, Salem is confronted by a malevolent entity which threatens the future of humanity before it can begin again—and only Salem stands in the way of it breaking free.

Power on the Margins

2000
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Book Synopsis Power on the Margins by : Xiaofei Kang (Ph.D.)

Download or read book Power on the Margins written by Xiaofei Kang (Ph.D.). This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura

2019-04-30 Fiction
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Release : 2019-04-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Fox and Dr. Shimamura by : Christine Wunnicke

Download or read book The Fox and Dr. Shimamura written by Christine Wunnicke. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novel The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent—to his dismay—to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it’s all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud—whose methods, Dr. Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with Japanese politeness. The ironic parallels between Charcot’s theories of female hysteria and ancient Japanese fox myths—when it comes to beautiful, writhing young women—are handled with a lightly sardonic touch by Christine Wunnicke, whose flavor-packed, inventive language is a delight.

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