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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... actually have the Yangchow hostel - keeper named Wu Lien right here in court . It's plain that you weren't lying before . Ts'ai : What I confessed in Shantung about being in Wu Sheng's hostel in Yangchow , and about splitting up with Yi ...
... actually had performed . The censor favored concrete accounts of official performance , in the form of a list of what a man had actually done . If the appointee did not live up to his billing , his recommender would be held accountable ...
... actually dis- patched on July 26 , 1768. On the imperial communication system , see Chapter 6 . 2. We have to assume that Funihan's sources at court sent word to him no later than July 6 that such information was in Hungli's possession ...