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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... tonsure decree in the early Ch'ing . Can this keen Manchu sensitivity to tonsure violations have died out completely by 1768 ? As for the general populace , must we lean on “ racial memory " to imagine that the threat of family ...
... tonsure requirements . Jail wardens had to ensure that felons under deferred death sentences had their foreheads properly shaved before the autumn assizes , and that those serving sentences of internal banishment were inspected ...
... tonsure questions in the eighteenth century : the tonsure issue lay far in the past , and no purpose was served by reviving it . On the contrary , the panic factor forbade even mentioning it as such in imperial communications . For the ...