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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... crime has been set afoot but nobody has yet been injured , the penalty is merely decapitation . The official " Commentary " distinguishes this crime from mutilation after a murder , which is merely committed out of hatred for the victim ...
... crimes of particular horror , which involved some of the deepest taboos ( such as cannibalism ) . Chinese jurists were stuck with the Nuremberg conundrum : some crimes were so inhuman that no human agency could ... Crime Defined 91 .
... crime . " Political crime included sedition in all its various guises , whether religious heterodoxy , literary innuendo , or outright revolt . Because it threatened the foundations of the system itself , political crime was considered ...