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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... century , the aggregate depopulation of the conquest years was already made good , and the stage was set for the population explosion of modern times . In the course of the eighteenth century , the population is thought to have doubled ...
... eighteenth - century inflation.5 Such is our picture of a vigorous , bus- tling age . To understand the background of the 1768 crisis , however , it will be important to explore its effects on social attitudes , a subject we still know ...
... eighteenth - century economy , then , can omit the gulf between core and periphery , between fertile river deltas and hardscrabble mountain uplands . What went along with this gradient in the economic map was an unceasing flow of people ...