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The Global White Snake examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across linguistic and cultural boundaries have generated distinctive traditions as the White Snake has been reinvented in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English-speaking worlds, among others. Moreover, the inter-Asian voyages and global circulations of the White Snake legends have enabled them to become repositories of diverse and complex meanings for a great number of people, serving as reservoirs for polyphonic expressions ranging from the attempts to consolidate authoritarian power to the celebrations of minority rights and activism. The Global White Snake uncovers how the White Snake legend often acts as an unsettling narrative of radical tolerance for hybrid sexualities, loving across traditional boundaries, subverting authority, and valuing the strange and the uncanny. A timely mediation and reflection on our contemporary moment of continued struggle for minority rights and social justice, The Global White Snake revives the radical anti-authoritarian spirit slithering under the tales of monsters and demons, love and lust, and reminds us of the power of the fantastic and the fabulous in inspiring and empowering personal and social transformations.

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""...Her generous reading style and open attitude toward source selection provide readers with a wonderful example of how we might approach texts with earnest curiosity for what they might teach us, rather than trying to prove our own intelligence by illuminating all the ways the texts fail. This reader hopes more works in the field will continue to employ a similar cross-regional perspective and hopes even more that they might do so with similar grace, intellect, and care as Luo."" —Cha: An Asian Literary Journal * Cha Journal *

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Liang Luo is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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