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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... arrested once more and brought him , the tax - collector , and Acting Magistrate Chang into his court for direct confrontation . He found that indeed there had been undue leniency : landlord Yin and Kuo's local neighbors , as well as ...
... arrested by a local constable . In the confusion , monk T'ung - yuan disappeared . Chin Kuan - tzu Meets a Fortune - Teller A native of Shantung's Chang - ch'iu County , in the metropolitan pre- fecture of Tsinan , beggar Chin Kuan ...
... arrested and released last spring ( the masons and monks ) : ship them in chains to the summer capital , where competent inquisitors would wring the truth from them.35 More Help from Shantung Back in Kiangsu , even as Jangboo was ...