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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... brought with the others before the magistrate . In the great hall , Chü - ch'eng and his companions , chained hand and foot , knelt before the county magistrate , who sat at his high desk flanked by his judicial secretaries.14 The ...
... brought his prisoner back to the barracks . By that time the crowd in the local market had learned that queue - clipping monks had been arrested , and a noisy mob had gathered at the dock . Local rowdies , led by Tang Hua and Li San ...
... brought before him and found their queue - ends to be untouched.3 Further questioning revealed that the schoolboy , Kuo Hsing - li , aged twelve , was a student at the local academy . He had stopped on the street to watch a jugglers ...