Marilyn Chin has been inventing a literature of Pacific Rim cultural assimilation, resistance, and hybridization throughout a distinguished career as one of the leading authors of her generation, but perhaps never more so than in her genre-bending first novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (2009). Always a prolific experimenter, Chin here constructs a new kind of pastiche fiction, a feminist magical realism built from both ancient Chinese erotic ghost tales and contemporary Asian and American (manga, kung fu) character concepts, spun through narrative modes ranging from Buddhist tales and Zen texts to other Chinese folktales, animal fables, and revenge tales—all within an overarching picaresque.