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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This was a story common enough in local society . Yet who would believe these ragged monks ? Could the public hysteria about sorcery be wholly groundless ? And what of the concrete evidence Ts'ai had produced from Chü - ch'eng's baggage ...
This was a story common enough in local society . Yet who would believe these ragged monks ? Could the public hysteria about sorcery be wholly groundless ? And what of the concrete evidence Ts'ai had produced from Chü - ch'eng's baggage ...
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Yü - tzu at first denied it , but was told that unless he corroborated the story , both his legs would be crushed . It was at this point that Chin Kuantzu was forced to fabricate the story about his master , the fortuneteller “ Chang ...
Yü - tzu at first denied it , but was told that unless he corroborated the story , both his legs would be crushed . It was at this point that Chin Kuantzu was forced to fabricate the story about his master , the fortuneteller “ Chang ...
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CHAPTER 9 Political Crime and Bureaucratic Monarchy We now have read several stories : about sorcery panic spreading ... Beneath them lies another story , the hardest to read : how local events — including the sorcery scare — served as ...
CHAPTER 9 Political Crime and Bureaucratic Monarchy We now have read several stories : about sorcery panic spreading ... Beneath them lies another story , the hardest to read : how local events — including the sorcery scare — served as ...
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