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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... named Tsou and was now in official custody . In a P'ei - hsien market crowd , a Shantung man named Yao was reported to have " bumped " the mother of one Yang , causing the lady to feel " dizzy . ” And in P'i - chou , a man named Wang ...
... named Chu , who had hired agents to clip queues . But the tip proved worthless ; no such man could be found . Finally , the fortune - teller Chang Ssu - ju , named in the confession of the Shantung beggar Chin Kuan - tzu , was sup ...
... named Wu . Now we actually have the Yangchow hostel - keeper named Wu Lien right here in court . It's plain that you weren't lying before . Ts'ai : What I confessed in Shantung about being in Wu Sheng's hostel in Yangchow , and about ...