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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... culture . He wanted to make Manchu - ness an inte- gral component of the imperial institution . The Throne would be both the guardian of Manchu cultural integrity and the symbol of a multiracial hegemony justified by cosmopolitan ...
... culture.40 Such an enterprise would seem hopeless ; yet it was required of every ruling dynasty , whether of domestic or foreign origin . Lead- ership , as distinct from routine bureaucratic management , distin- guished the conquerors ...
... culture , the culture of Kiangnan would do the worst damage . The monarch himself was both attracted and repelled by Kiangnan . Hungli had , after visiting the region , imported fragments of Kiangnan elite culture to adorn the Manchu ...