Teen bookshelves are packed with vampires and other strays from medieval European culture, but here’s an alternative: Kunlun, a tale of Asian mystery, adventure, and lives on the line. At the heart of it is Vikki Beldark, a scrappy shape-shifting fox who finds herself on an fur-raising journey across China. Along the way she is swept into an interstellar battle centered on the failure of Earth-dwellers to care for their own planet.
Table of Content
Chapter One: Fashion Statements
Chapter Two: The Party’s Over
Chapter Three: Wei Ji, Before Completion
Chapter Four: Blending In
Chapter Five: To the Beach
Chapter Six: Foxes You’d Rather Not Know
Chapter Seven: All in the Family
Chapter Eight: Uninvited Guests
Chapter Nine: Crossing the Great Water
Chapter Ten: Wish You Were Here
Chapter Eleven: Dreamtake Two
Chapter Twelve: Into the Desert
Chapter Thirteen: Out of His Gourd
Chapter Fourteen: The Southwest Furthers
Chapter Fifteen: The Butter Tea of Human Kindness
Chapter Sixteen: The Penitent at the Crossroads
Chapter Seventeen: Getting Down
Chapter Eighteen: Time Out
Chapter Nineteen: Queen Mother of the West
Chapter Twenty: In the Mirror
Chapter Twenty-One: Choices
Chapter Twenty-Two: The River Home
Deleted Scene: The Mahasattvas
About the author
When not writing fiction about Asia, Wendi Adamek spends her time studying it. Born in Hawaii and educated at Stanford, she has lived in many places in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies at the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary. Her interests include medieval Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist archeology, and permaculture. Her forthcoming academic book Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan centers on a sixth-century community in Henan, China. Previous publications include The Mystique of Transmission (AAR Award for Excellence in Textual Studies, 2008) and The Teachings of Master Wuzhu (2011). She has held research fellowships at Kyoto University (BDK, Fulbright), Peking University (NEH, Fulbright), the Stanford Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.
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