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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... rules ? Both monarch and bureau- crat were caught in this dilemma ; both were ambivalent toward formal ... Rules yield predictability and standardization . They also limit the freedom of the one who applies them . In this sense they are ...
Philip A. Kuhn. remedies included not only more rules but also procedures that rested upon arbitrary power . From early in his reign , Hungli was impatient with rules that did not work . His remedies included both tightening the screws ...
... rules on the other . His own strategy will be to find the best combination of both weapons .. Proliferation of the rules curtails his own power . Too many exceptions to the rules reduce his ability to check other people's power ...