Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, 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 opens a window on the world of eighteenth-century China. |
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One prisoner , it turned out , could not be released . The two county policemen who had made the original arrests ( and who were held responsible for the prisoners throughout their custody by the county ) ) reported on May 5 that ...
One prisoner , it turned out , could not be released . The two county policemen who had made the original arrests ( and who were held responsible for the prisoners throughout their custody by the county ) ) reported on May 5 that ...
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Furthermore , if questioning in the field did not produce reliable results , the prisoner was to be sent under close guard to the summer court at Ch'eng - te , some seven hundred miles distant beyond the Great Wall.41 Although Anhwei ...
Furthermore , if questioning in the field did not produce reliable results , the prisoner was to be sent under close guard to the summer court at Ch'eng - te , some seven hundred miles distant beyond the Great Wall.41 Although Anhwei ...
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Yet they also had to face the agonized prisoners , with their mangled bodies and muddled stories , who had been sent up ... torture an appropriate way to extract the necessary details of a confession from an obviously guilty prisoner .
Yet they also had to face the agonized prisoners , with their mangled bodies and muddled stories , who had been sent up ... torture an appropriate way to extract the necessary details of a confession from an obviously guilty prisoner .
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書目資訊
| 書名 | Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 |
| 作者 | Philip A KUHN |
| 版本 | 圖解 |
| 出版者 | Harvard University Press, 1990 |
| 來源： | 密西根大學 |
| 已數位化 | 2008年10月21日 |
| ISBN | 0674821513, 9780674821514 |
| 頁數 | 317 頁 |
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