Chinese spirit tales and folk sayings about cats, rats, and other critters translated and retold.
Cat Lore
Translations from old Chinese texts about cats.
Animal Wonder Tales
Supernatural stories of transforming tigers, helpful rats, and more!
- Tiger Guardians of the Ginkgo Forest
- The Stripe Siblings
- Cat Spirits of Jinhua
- Son of Cheng Chunqu – a tale of human-feline reincarnation
- The Monk’s Debt: a medieval cat reincarnation tale
- Zhou Hai’s Debt: a human-to-cat reincarnation tale
- The Dog and the Dao
- The Life Extender: A Supernatural Rat Tale of Devotion
- The Messenger of the Eastern Warehouse: A rat tale from the 18th c.
- The Grateful Rat
Myths of the Moon
Think you know the stories of Chang E and Moon Rabbit? Not many people know the unromanticized ancient versions of the myths, warts and all. 😉
Btw Jade Rabbit can’t be a rabbit because rabbits are not indigenous to China. Hare or rabbit, this lagomorph appears in more than one queer tale: