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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... already sown on the nonirrigable hill- sides by settlers flocking to China's internal frontiers . By the late seventeenth century , the aggregate depopulation of the conquest years was already made good , and the stage was set for the ...
... already arrived in the summer capital . Others remained at Peking , where they were interrogated by those grand councillors who had stayed behind at the Forbidden City . Now the empire's most powerful ministers would clear up this ...
... already seriously ill when he was shipped off to the capital . So nobody in Peking could be held responsible . The grand councillors concluded that he was , after all , not the queue - clipper they were looking for . He was to be ...