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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... magistrate's yamen at Mu- tu - chen , on the river route to Soochow . The boat docked at Mu - tu - chen after dark . Taking monk Ching- chuang with him and leaving the others on the boat , the constable went ashore and headed for the ...
... magistrate was docked three months ' wages . A disturbance in the marketplace . Later that same year , in central China , not far from Wuchang , the capital of Hupei Province , a minor fracas occurred in the market town of Yü - chen ...
... ( magistrate ) , 3 , 5 , 7 Juntai ( governor of Shantung ) , 182 , 213 , 260n38 , 265n68 kai - fei ( beggar - bandits ) , 47 K'ang - hsi emperor , 73 , 75 , 87 , 139 kao yin - chuang ( folk practice ) , 236n6 k'ao - shih - hua ( " exam ...