Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes provides a unique view of the underside of China's history and culture as revealed through the eyes of ordinary men and women. The author takes an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates history, anthropology, folkstudies, and literature to examine the sociocultural and symbolic worlds of gangsters, Triads, sorcerers, tricksters, and prostitutes in late imperial and modern China--