Recs if you like Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Premodern East Asia: New Horizons)...

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.

a starting bibliography for the classic ming dynasty novel 西遊記 / journey to the west.

some notes on the translation: anthony yu favours a more foreignised translation style, which means the translation mirrors the rhythms and patterns of the original chinese text.