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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... sent forth to rob people of their possessions . By late November 1767 , Han had been sent forth with one of Ming - yuan's acolytes , monk Fa - k'ung . Each had been given 500 cash and a packet of stupefying powder , and each was to ...
... sent him a report about this case , so the criminal had actually been languishing in jail for upward of two months . The criminal had protested that he was no queue - clipper but was on his way to Chihli to visit relatives . Inquiries ...
... sent under close guard to the summer court at Ch'eng - te , some seven hundred miles distant beyond the Great Wall.41 Although Anhwei governor Feng Ch'ien was G'aojin's subordinate , he nevertheless was responsible for sending his own ...