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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... monarch ? It was , after all , their system too . The answer must lie at the core of bureaucratic monarchy itself , at least as we see it in the Chinese case . Documents from the sorcery crisis suggest why political crime was a monarch's ...
... monarch ? To the extent that it is monarchic , how can one man's autocratic power coexist with a system of universal rules ? Both monarch and bureau- crat were caught in this dilemma ; both were ambivalent toward formal administrative ...
... monarch's control of his " political appointees " rested largely on his personal relationship with them . This relationship was a two - way communication , proclaimed by the monarch and acknowledged by the bureaucrat . The monarch's ...