Recs if you like Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)...

Fantasy nonfiction, or books about the nature of the fantastic (and the lives of some of its most ardent devotees) for those of us who'd like to leave the comfort of our Hobbit holes and brave the literary wilderness.

here’s how the women of china lived and made a space for themselves in their own patriarchal society.

— “the eighteen changes of a girl between childhood and adulthood.”

books to get you started on the different folkloric and religious traditions throughout chinese history.