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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... Original Queue - Clipper's Tale The inquisitors in Peking now went back to the beginning . By the time he was reinterrogated at Peking in mid - October , Shantung's original queue - clipper , beggar Ts'ai T'ing - chang , was already ...
... original confession had aroused Duke Fuheng's suspicion because of its numerous absurdities . For example , " clipping a queue is an act performed when the victim is off his guard . How can the clipper have had time to ask the victim's ...
... original Soochow beggars , only Ch'en Han - ju was still alive ( Chang Yü - ch'eng had died in jail ; Ch'iu Yung - nien was reported to have died later of illness ) . Here , too , the original judg- ment by the county magistrate was ...