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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... social changes of this sort , fear of strangers was deeply rooted in popular religion , as I shall explain in Chapter 5 . Lay beggars . Nearly all writers on " beggars " begin by listing the various " types " of beggars ( the blind ...
... social groups represented that experience in different ways . We have had occasion to observe the cultural disparities between silk - gowned inquisitor and ragged pris- oner . But social distance did not mean mutual incomprehension ...
... social resources . Merely to form groups to promote particular social interests was , for ordinary subjects , politically dan- gerous . In time , such power would be sought outside the old imperial system ; the results would be ...