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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... clergy ? The provin- cial judge of Szechwan pointed to " increasing numbers " of unem- ployed men and women who " concealed themselves in Buddhist establishments , " but did not shave their heads . They were known as " hair - wearing ...
... clergy into the lists . But this was mere patchwork , he wrote to the Throne . Instead , he proposed reviving the practice of reporting registered clergy to the Throne at year's end , along with general population and harvest figures ...
... clergy ( those in major monasteries or temples ) to the vast majority of ritual specialists in lay communities . His first major pronouncement on the clergy concerned persons who might be called secular clergy— actually the majority of ...