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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... later testimony . 12 Chü - ch'eng ( this was his dharma - name , assumed when he was tonsured as a monk ) , aged forty - eight , lay surname Hung , was a native of Hsiao - shan County . When he was forty - one , after his par- ents and ...
... later saw plenty of vagrancy , of course , during the economic crises of the nineteenth century . By contrast , the eight- eenth century looked like a golden age . Yet , despite the disparity in numbers , I am struck by the social ...
... later ) for understanding eight- eenth - century conditions ? Even though economic conditions , crowding , and social breakdown were much worse a century later , contemporary perceptions of the growth of a clerical underclass should at ...