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1908: They say there are foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men.
The Fox Wife
What you need to know before your trail
A young woman is found frozen in the snow.
Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now.
Meanwhile, the family of a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure all ailments – except the curse that afflicts them. All their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. Now the only grandson of the family is twenty-three.
When a mysterious woman enters their household, their luck seems to change. But is their new servant a simple young woman from the north, or a fox spirit bent on her own revenge?
Travel Guide
Manchuria
This is a novel not so much of settings or location but of myths and stories from the past. Manchuria is where it all takes place and this is now most often associated with the three Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning.
The name Manchuria is essentially current day North East China. The term Manchuria was promoted by the Japanese Empire in support for the existence of its puppet state, Manchukuo. The Fox Lady opens in Manchuria in 1908, a few years before the Xinhai Revolution topples the current status quo.
The true landscape here is Asian folklore and history and its many myths including the foxes who shapeshift into humans.
BookTrail Boarding Pass:
Destination: Manchuria Author/guide: Yangsze Choo Departure Time: 1908
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