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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... early conquest years , when the issue was very much alive . The macabre tonsure cases of the early Ch'ing suggest what dark surmises may have hidden behind the imperial smile . Retrospective : The Conquest Years While combat still ...
... early Ch'ing . Can this keen Manchu sensitivity to tonsure violations have died out completely by 1768 ? As for the general populace , must we lean on “ racial memory " to imagine that the threat of family extirpation may occasionally ...
... early September and sent , by imperial order , on the long journey beyond the Great Wall to the summer capital . The trip took slightly over a month , and upon their arrival in early October the emperor immediately appointed an ...