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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... considered the original memorial , and then dispatched to the field as a " court letter " ( t'ing - chi or tzu - chi ) . The " open edict " was a general message to the bureaucracy as a whole ; the " vermilion rescript " and " court ...
... considered torture an appropriate way to extract the necessary details of a confession from an obviously guilty prisoner . Language smoothed the way . Just as the concepts of " prisoner " and " criminal ” were not clearly distinguished ...
... considered dependents or clients of governors ? Though the general answer is surely the pater- nalism that tinctured the entire Chinese bureaucracy , the specific answer lies in the governor's power to recommend his subordinates for ...