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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... popular deities it had co - opted into its religious system . Through its in - house astrologers , it was constantly involved in reading the omens of the skies . As to the reality of man's link to the spirits , it could hardly take an ...
... popular fears ran along the same channels : these were men in limbo , neither of the orthodox family system nor of the certified clerical elite . This fact should lead us to question the usefulness of the designation " monk , " which ...
... popular stories . Yet we may wonder whether , in the popular mind , the various sorts of ritual specialists were as sharply distinguished when they were strangers to the community . Wandering Buddhist monks might have seemed ...