Back in the city that had been so conducive to wishing I was someplace else in, I stumbled into a job at a local folklore center.

The following ten creatures were once dismissed by science as products of folklore, imagination, or deception, but are now formally recognized as their own species.

Street folk art keeps many of these alive, but many people seem only interested in foreign arts and customs.

Many fear that these customs will disappear as new concepts and ideas come in from outside of China.

This was not from any love of the subject - I considered folklore a poor relation to literature - but out of sheer expediency.