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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... forces ( overpopulation , perhaps , or the power of fluctuating market forces to " steal " their livelihoods ) . Such an assertion , however bewitching , can certainly never be proved . Yet the Prosperous Age was clearly capable of ...
... forces to be so tenuous , and the battle between beneficent and hostile spirits so evenly drawn . As we have seen , the nexus between body and soul was another danger point that was vulnerable to attack by malevolent forces . In this ...
... forces that were eroding ordinary people's life chances . In these conditions emerged the politics of the impacted society . In late imperial China , most people lacked the access to political power that would have enabled them to ...