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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... seemed like her own , then drew a knife and stabbed her to the heart . She felt her soul floating out of her body and could see the Taoist daubing drops of her heart's blood upon a wooden doll while muttering incantations . She felt ...
... seemed unpredictable and inscrutable , for example , when compared with monks based in a local temple whom everyone saw at neighborhood funerals . And it takes little imagina- tion to perceive the menace of a " wandering Taoist ...
... seemed to portend . Popular fears of dynastic change - and the natural disasters that came with it- were readily crystallized by Ts'ui and his doctrines . The panic factor was now fairly at work . Or so it must have seemed to the court ...