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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... capital were gradually subsiding , perhaps because of vigilant police work . Vermilion : " Just because they are hiding their tracks is no reason to close the case . . . Now Jehol [ the vicinity of the summer capital ] has turned up six ...
... capital . Accordingly , the job of surveillance in both capital and provinces mainly fell to line bureau- crats , each of whom was responsible for watching the conduct of his subordinates . To symbolize how administration and ...
... capital and provincial systems , the cumbersome pro- cedure was that every year an official would be rated ( k'ao - ch'eng ) by his superior officer . These ratings served as raw material for the triennial evaluations . In the capital ...