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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... Shantung . The gap in quality between the administrations of Shantung and Kiangsu was all too plain . Jangboo's failure to cross the Anhwei border in pursuit of Yü - shih was further evidence of bureaucratic laxity : although in ...
... Shantung governor Funihan ( sent around July 24 ) : confessions of the beggar - criminals Ts'ai and Chin had revealed the Chekiang origins of the mysterious queue - clipping cult that had now surfaced in Shantung . Yungde realized that ...
... Shantung's original queue - clipper , beggar Ts'ai T'ing - chang , was already gravely ill . Though he now claimed that his original confession had been concocted under torture , the grand councillors were not so easily to be put off ...