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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... emperor himself presided over solemn annual sacrifices to Heaven and Earth . At the bottom , the county magistrate ( a little emperor in his own realm ) regarded the City God ( ch'eng - huang , a magistrate of the spirit world ) , as an ...
... emperor's powerful privy council , the Grand Council . Sometimes a returned memorial might be adorned with vermilion in many places , as the monarch responded to particular points by writing between the lines . A more formally organized ...
... Emperor : Bondservant and Master ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1966 ) , 16 . 12. CSL 813.30b . The memorial is excerpted here , along with the vermilion rescript , but I have not found the original memorial . 13. Jangboo himself ...