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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... Kiangnan Problem Fear and mistrust , admiration and envy : all marked the Manchu view of Kiangnan , where soulstealing originated . In that “ land of rice and fish , " elegance and scholarship were nourished by lush agriculture and ...
... Kiangnan would do the worst damage . The monarch himself was both attracted and repelled by Kiangnan . Hungli had , after visiting the region , imported fragments of Kiangnan elite culture to adorn the Manchu summer capital at Ch'eng ...
... Kiangnan decadence had infected even Manchu stalwarts such as Yenjišan , to say nothing of veteran Han bureaucrats like Ch'en Hung- mou . Its miasma penetrated all levels , from provincial grandees down to county magistrates . The ...