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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... Funihan had heard that Hungli had such information , only speedy reporting could protect him from charges of conceal- ment . ? As it turned out , what Funihan had now to report went beyond the spreading of “ absurd ” stories : actual ...
... Funihan then called the culprits up for his personal interrogation , but was told that beggar - woman Chang had just died of illness in the county jail ( “ a cold contracted on her journey here " ) . 6 However shaky the case , Funihan ...
... Funihan himself , whose memorials ( and enclosed confessions ) had kept the soulstealing case on the boil for three months . Day after day , the grand councillors at the summer capital and at Peking had viewed the human debris sent up ...