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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
by Xiaofei Kang
Description: The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China examines the history and social dynamics of the fox cult across different Chinese eras, focusing on its roles in gender relations and popular religious practices
ISBN: 0231133383
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PaulHoule · 2025-12-09 · Original thread
Strikes me as super-informal language as opposed to sycophancy, like one of those anime characters that calls everyone Aniki (兄貴) [1] I'd imagine that the OP must really talk a bit like that.

I do find it a little tiring that every LLM thinks my ever idea is "incisive" although from time to time I get told I am flat out wrong. On the other hand I find LLMs will follow me into fairly extreme rabbit holes such as discussing a subject such as "transforming into a fox" as if it had a large body of legible theory and a large database of experience [2]

In the middle of talking w/ Copilot about my latest pop culture obsession I asked about what sort of literature could be interpreted through the lens of Kohut's self-psychology and it immediately picked out Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby and Neon Genesis Evangelion which it analyzed along the lines I was thinking, but when I asked if there was a literature on this it turned up only a few obscure sources. I asked Google and Google is like "bro, Kohut wrote a book on it!" [3]

[1] "bro"

[2] ... it does, see https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Fox-Popular-Religion-Imperial/dp... and I'm not the only one because when I working down the material list from Etsy I got a sponsored result for someone who wanted to sell me the spell but bro, I have the materials list already

[3] ... this "bro" is artistic license but the book really exists