The best known Chinese stories written about fox-spirits are those written by Pu Song-ling [蒲 松 齡], in a collection known as 'Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio' or 'Laozhai zhiyi' [聊 齋 誌 異] made in the late 17th century.
His overriding interest was in tales about the supernatural. Many of his stories in the Liaozhai collection are retelling of old tales from the Tang Dynasty or earlier.
The Liaozhai Zhiyi, or 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', contains around 491 tales. His book circulated only in manuscript form for many years, before finally being published posthumously by his grandson in 1740. An alternate title was 'History of Foxes and Ghosts'.
It is actually quite an interesting read, and I recommend this if you have a preference for those things that go bump in the night.
....(Apparently I was told many of his stories during my childhood years though i have no recollection of this whatsoever).
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