Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990年1月1日 - 317 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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... Problem Fear and mistrust , admiration and envy : all marked the Manchu view of Kiangnan , where soulstealing originated . In that “ land of rice and fish , " elegance and scholarship were nourished by lush agriculture and thriving ...
... problems : ( 1 ) separating routine from urgent business , so that problems could be handled at the appropriate ... problem , Hungli had inherited from his predecessors a documentary system with a routine track and a con- fidential ...
... problem , and you probably won't catch the chief culprit . " 65 The point , however , had been made : provincial supervision of local bureaucrats had to be tightened . Restating Norms of Official Behavior Nothing offered surer ...