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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... called Chao - ch'ing - ssu . In the course of his travels to study at various monasteries , he met the monk called Ch'ao - fan , whom he later invited to join him as his junior acolyte . Ch'ao - fan , forty - three , from poor and ...
... called tsou - ma t'ien - cheng ( heavenly spirits riding horses ) , or pan - t'ien hsiu - ts'ai ( literary graduates living halfway in the sky ) . A person who falls unconscious is taken to a priest ( shih- kung , Taoist exorcist ) who ...
... called him Hungli at the time ( his personal name being taboo ) , I can only say that nobody called him " Ch'ien - lung , " either . To emphasize their ethnic distinction , I have represented all Manchus ( including Hungli ) by their ...