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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... criminals who are caught in the provinces give out names and addresses that are later untraceable , or only give names and no addresses . This is the result of the craftiness of the criminals , who cover up clues and depose falsely by ...
... criminals Ts'ai and Chin had revealed the Chekiang origins of the mysterious queue - clipping cult that had now surfaced in Shantung . Yungde realized that the Throne would now have to be informed of the Chekiang " soulstealing " affair ...
... criminals would have been unable to slip through the net . " Instead , “ right from the beginning " bureaucrats had followed their accus- tomed routines and failed to report the matter , " seeking to turn something into nothing , " and ...