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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... begging in his native county , where we now find him . Cheng - i , twenty - two , a native of Jen - ho in Hangchow Prefecture , lay surname Wang , was Chü - ch'eng's " younger brother . " Because he was a sickly child , his mother had ...
... begging . Apart from the spir- itual benefits of begging ( a demonstration that they had renounced worldly concerns ) , their monastic homes lacked the means to support them . We do not know exactly the extent of the catchment basin of ...
... begging : small temples commonly lacked enough land endowment to support their inhabi- tants , and lacking adequate donations or fees from requiem masses , begging was the only way out . Monastic begging was not universally approved ...