Recs if you like The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China...

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 primer on the literary tradition of 志怪 zhiguai, which records tales of the strange and the supernatural.

the title of this list is a play on the translation of pu songling’s 聊齋誌異 / strange tales from a chinese studio, which is a great place to start!