Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990年1月1日 - 317 頁 Midway through the reign of the Ch’ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China’s last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men’s queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. |
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... Buddhist monks , whose main community function was assisting the souls of the departed through the underworld , were not sorcerers in quite the same sense , which may explain their relative benignity in popular stories . Yet we may ...
... Buddhism and the life of the Buddhist clergy in late imperial times still await research . In the discussion that follows , I am falling back on fieldwork that reveals conditions in the early twentieth century . Though this solution is ...
... Buddhist Religion : Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1976 ... Buddhist Monasteries : Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life . Copenhagen , 1936 ...