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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... documents to describe virtually anyone with a robe and a shaved head , whatever his state of religious commitment or education . Many of these men , or perhaps even most of them , were not unambiguously in any of the approved categories ...
... documents were rigidly prescribed , and irregularities were grounds for impeachment . Although today's social historian finds in these " routine " memorials the very pith of everyday Chinese life , the medium was ill suited to urgent ...
... documents.59 The bureau- cratic acknowledgment closed the loop of this dialogue of depen- dency and control . This acknowledgment shows up pointedly in the ritual that immediately follows an official's audience with the emperor and his ...