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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... monks go . He put Ching - chuang , the boatman , and the original accuser Chang onto the boat with all the other monks to take the lot to the assistant magistrate's yamen at Mu- tu - chen , on the river route to Soochow . The boat ...
... monk " ( seng ) , he was forbidden to reside in any of the large , elite monasteries . Such " monks " probably constituted the majority of the Buddhist clergy , and most soulstealing suspects ( including two of the Hsiao - shan monks ...
... monks , it will be remembered , had been rearrested in early September and sent , by imperial order , on the long journey beyond the Great Wall to the summer capital . The trip took slightly over a month , and upon their arrival in ...