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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... provincial prosecutors ? China's civil provincial bureaucracy in 1768 was a tiny elite corps of only sixty- three men . I use " provincial bureaucracy " in a special sense : men with duties on the provincial level or higher . Such ...
... provincial bureaucracy ( either from a circuit- intendancy , which oversaw several prefectures , or from a junior vice- presidency of one of the Six Boards ) , their elevation to provincial rank immediately signaled a special ...
... provincial trea- surers , 5 ; and for provincial judges , 2.5 . 4. Based on the provincial estimates for 1787 in Ho , Studies on the Population of China , 283 , and Brian R. Mitchell , European Historical Statistics , 1750– 1975 , 2nd ...