Research – Dragons of Heaven

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Sun Tzu. The Art of War. New York: Arcturus. 2008.

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Xiaofei Kang. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006.