Fox Charms. Legendary Novels of the Chinese Writer of the 17th-18th Centuries

Today, the theme of Eastern epics is very popular all over the world. We want to offer you the fairy tales of the famous Chinese author Pu Songling, which have earned immortal fame in China and, despite their three-hundred-year history,... have long surpassed the borders of the Celestial Empire and are still in demand by readers.
The fox is a cunning character in the tales of many nations, but in Chinese culture, it holds a special place. In China, the fox is portrayed as a shapeshifting being endowed with a special ability for deceitful hypocrisy, easily alluring its victim and then ruthlessly exploiting them. It is endowed with longevity that can reach a thousand years, and superhuman, even divine traits. But foxes can both deceive, confuse, and entangle, as well as help! Bearing fatal charm to humans, sometimes bringing them to the brink of death, the fox often brings miraculous healing as well…
The book has been translated by the remarkable sinologist Vasily Mikhailovich Alekseev, who has also provided numerous annotations to the text.