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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... matter . Tempers flared , and local constables were summoned . Unluckily for Kuo , his frontal hair was discovered to be nearly an inch long , and he was placed under arrest . On his person was discovered a paper bearing the signature ...
... matter of preemptive reporting : covering up information was a serious matter between emperor and bureaucrat . The troublesome business of local sorcery could have been kept from Hungli's attention only at some risk of his hearing about ...
... matters as small , representing something as nothing . " But Kiangnan was by far the worst : " G'aojin has long been ... matter of days before cutpurse Liu's master , " Bearded Wei , " was arrested , and Jangboo interrogated him ...