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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... century , the aggregate depopulation of the conquest years was already made good , and the stage was set for the population explosion of modern times . In the course of the eighteenth century , the population is thought to have doubled ...
... century , was redrawn on an even grander scale as the nation recovered from the turmoil of the Ming collapse and Manchu conquest . The mild but persistent rise in prices that accompanied the influx of silver was generally good for ...
... century had been accompanied by a freer market in labor . Land tenancy tended toward long - term , contractual relations between landlord and tenant . In some areas , permanent tenancy rights ( under a kind of dual - owner- ship system ...