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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... Soochow In Soochow , an ornament of China's most elegant urban culture , seat of the governor of Kiangsu , China's richest province , on May 3 , 1768 , local constables seized an old beggar of " suspicious " appearance . The charge was ...
... Soochow area , which of course His Majesty had never heard about : the arrest of the Soochow beggars and the incident at Hsu - k'ou - chen , which I related in Chapter 1. Sacai revealed how the suspects had been released for lack of ...
... Soochow . On November 8 , Fuheng confirmed the original finding of the Wu County magistrate : Ching- chuang and his companions were all " honest monks true to their calling " and should be released forthwith . Fisherman Chang , who had ...