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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... Society , 114-123 . 12. The emancipation decrees are summarized in TCHTSL 158.30b ff . See also Hansson , “ Regional Outcast Groups " ; Naquin and Rawski , Chinese Society , 100 ; and Philip A. Kuhn , " Chinese Views of Social ...
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