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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... political system.1 Sorcery played its part in the political system as the kind of event I shall call " political crime . " Political crime included sedition in all its various guises , whether religious heterodoxy , literary innuendo ...
... political appointments , both as a formal system and as practical politics , operated by a set of rules that was distinct from the routine system . Although the Board of Civil Office was involved in the process to some extent , the ...
... political behavior of the monarchy in the soulstealing crisis may help us refine our view of the " autocracy " that ... political crime " a particularly needful ingredient of his personal control . Yet I cannot help wondering whether ...