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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... soul- stealing . When you made your first confession here , you wouldn't admit that you had asked the child's name . Chü - ch'eng : ... That day , at the county yamen , I said I had asked his name , so the magistrate kept asking about ...
... soul- stealing , and where did the particular offenses of 1768 fit within it ? Every public officer who dealt with soulstealing , including Hungli himself , was surely aware of the extent and variety of the Code's prohibitions against ...
... soul- stealing prosecution of 1768 generated no case record of sentences . The reasons for this odd situation will ... stealing the souls of living persons by means of spells and charms . " 27 Tao - sheng had reportedly attracted some ...