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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... memorial " and its widespread dissemination offer some hints about Hungli's problems with sedition . Although at the time " even coolies in the street " knew what the Bogus Memorial contained , 22 no copy of it now survives , so ...
... memorial " was a personal document . Besides urgent local affairs , these documents dealt with matters growing from ... memorial by inter- personal ritual . The routine memorial communicated office to office , the palace memorial man to ...
... memorial . The memorial , bearing the royal response , was then returned to its sender , generally through the emperor's powerful privy council , the Grand Council . Sometimes a returned memorial might be adorned with vermilion in many ...