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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... Peking residents that foretold famines , mass deaths , and ghostly visitations.51 Hungli immediately perceived that the Peking Gendarmerie , under bannerman Toendo , must be incompetent if such criminals could move about the city with ...
... Peking now went back to the beginning . By the time he was reinterrogated at Peking in mid - October , Shantung's original queue - clipper , beggar Ts'ai T'ing - chang , was already gravely ill . Though he now claimed that his original ...
... ( Peking : Peking Leader Press , 1925 ) . On beggar typologies , see also Jean - Jacques Matignon , " Le mendiant de Pékin , " in Superstition , crime , et misère en Chine , 4th ed . ( Lyons : Storck , 1902 ) , 207– 246 ; and Hsu K'o , Ch ...