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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... 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 letter " were swift , confidential , and precise action - documents designed ...
... court , and kneeling before the governor's bench was ordered to unbind her hair . Indeed , it matched exactly . Further , she maintained under insistent questioning that Chueh - hsing had used no potion on her , and that she had yielded ...
... court sent word to him no later than July 6 that such information was in Hungli's possession . The court letter was dated July 25 and actually dispatched July 26. Funihan's July 24 memorial on the subject was probably not received in ...