Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990 - 299 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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... Code ( Ta - Ch'ing lü - li ) handles treason in the statute " The Ten Abominations ( shih - o ) , " the third paragraph of which is titled " conspiracy to revolt ( mou- p'an ) . " The sole clarification of this broadly gauged rubric is ...
... Code.7 Sorcery in the Ch'ing Code In view of its own dominating position in the empire's ritual life , it might seem odd that the state saw sorcery as a serious threat . Yet it did so , as evidenced by the penal code's stern provisions ...
... code to crimes considered particularly loathsome , whether or not sorcery itself could be clearly demonstrated . Certain laws , such as the sorcery clauses in the " Ten Abominations , ” were so hard to apply to the real world that they ...