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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... Kiangsu edu- cational commissioner . He described how the power of Kiangsu's rich , commercialized elites had outgrown the government's capacity to control them . " The arrogant lower gentry cause trouble and behave outrageously , but ...
... ( Kiangsu ) and Wu- yuan ( Chekiang ) . Though numerous arrests had been made in Chihli and Shantung ( Funihan had now caught five more queue - clippers ) , the hotbed of soulstealing in the Yangtze provinces had yielded no culprits . To ...
... ( Kiangsu ) , Governor Feng Ch'ien ( Anhwei ) , Gov- ernor Hsiung Hsueh - p'eng ( Chekiang ) , Governor Yungde ( Che- kiang ) , Governor Mingde ( Yunnan , formerly Kiangsu ) , and Gov- ernor Surde ( Shansi ) . A number of county - level ...