Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990年1月1日 - 317 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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... temple in Hangchow called Ch'ung - shan - miao , where he assumed the tonsure . 13 There he shared a teacher ( master , shih - fu ) with the younger monk Cheng - i , and the two addressed each other , in the conventional clerical ...
... Temple . A fisherman , Chang Tzu - fa , entered the temple and asked whether Ching - chuang was from Hu - chou . Fearsome rumors had recently convinced local folk that monks from Hu - chou were coming to clip people's queues . Was Ching ...
... temple was little frequented by pilgrims or by devotees wanting masses celebrated for the dead , and so got few donations.43 Nearer the city , on Chien - yuan Mountain , was a prosperous temple : a Kuan - yin Hall , much favored by the ...