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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... region of the lower Yangtze , where the soulstealing crisis began . The Society of the Lower Yangtze The area known ... regions , that the eighteenth - century commercial expansion is most often described . For three - quarters of a ...
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... region . But Hui - chou's local economy accords rather closely with the picture of Kuang - te just sketched : a hilly region with poor land , a settlement area for landless peasants crowded out of coastal regions , and a relatively ...