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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... practiced were pure bunk : no such activity was occurring . Or they may have supposed that though some malefactors might ... practice sorcery , they had already ignited dangerous popular fears and must be harshly punished . In the event ...
... practice of reporting lists of personnel to the Throne was discontinued . All this was evidently intended to routinize the procedures and generate less paperwork for the Throne . TCHTSL 501.6 . 43. TCHTSL 501.5-8 . 44. TCHTSL 501.8b ...
... practice of keeping large numbers of prisoners in a single cell must have made for a lively prison culture of shared misery . Stories of all kinds , including sorcery lore , were presumably a common diversion for inmates undergoing the ...