Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, 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 opens a window on the world of eighteenth-century China. |
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Sorcery prosecutions under “ Sacrifices , ” then , convey a mixed message : the Ch'ing state viewed unauthorized traffic with spirits as a threat to public order and used the statute to attack sectarians . Nevertheless , the statute was ...
Sorcery prosecutions under “ Sacrifices , ” then , convey a mixed message : the Ch'ing state viewed unauthorized traffic with spirits as a threat to public order and used the statute to attack sectarians . Nevertheless , the statute was ...
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Their retention in the body of the Code itself is further evidence that imperial Chinese jurists , for all their disclaimers , believed that there was always likely to be something nasty going on out there between humans and spirits .
Their retention in the body of the Code itself is further evidence that imperial Chinese jurists , for all their disclaimers , believed that there was always likely to be something nasty going on out there between humans and spirits .
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Official Treatment of the Clergy The commoner's daily battle against evil spirits was mirrored , at the very top of society , by the ... Even as it prohibited sorcery , the state was itself constantly dealing with the spirit world .
Official Treatment of the Clergy The commoner's daily battle against evil spirits was mirrored , at the very top of society , by the ... Even as it prohibited sorcery , the state was itself constantly dealing with the spirit world .
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| 書名 | Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 |
| 作者 | Philip A KUHN |
| 版本 | 圖解 |
| 出版者 | Harvard University Press, 1990 |
| 來源： | 密西根大學 |
| 已數位化 | 2008年10月21日 |
| ISBN | 0674821513, 9780674821514 |
| 頁數 | 317 頁 |
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