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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... spirit world — whether real or spurious - shaped the actual topography of this battleground . By contrast to the " Sacrifices " heading , which emphasizes com- munication with spirits , “ Ceremonies " emphasizes the concrete ritual ...
... spirits . Such unauthorized traffic with the world of shadow threatened both the security of the state and the moral ... spirits " ( statute 162 ) might have seemed inappropriate , because the “ spirits ” involved were simply The Crime ...
... spirits was mirrored , at the very top of society , by the concerns of the imperial state . Even as it prohibited sorcery , the state was itself constantly dealing with the spirit world . On every level of officialdom , from the ...