Download or read book Alien Kind written by Rania Huntington and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China of the Ming and Qing dynasties was well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender and the metaphysical realm. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how manoeuvres across that boundary change over time.