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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... Throne asking that he be executed , " to uphold the laws of the ruling dynasty . " Replied the Throne ( the stern Dorgon speaking , we may assume ) , " Let him be executed on the spot . But what about the local officials , the household ...
... Throne's attention on his own initiative . Those suspicions were con- firmed by the initial responses to his demands for information and action . Hungli's Provincial Bureaucracy How effective were Hungli's provincial prosecutors ...
... Throne presumed that the interest of the field official was always to reduce his risk of failure by underreporting the problem at hand . In this situation , the routine auditing process that checked performance against norms ( as , for ...