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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... turned up the stories of the Te - ch'ing and Hsiao - shan sorcery scares , which turned out to have been started by groundless rumors among credulous rustics . " That is why former Governor Hsiung did not report these affairs to Your ...
... turned up only a small ceramic bottle . Pressed by the magistrate to find the " knife , " the chief runner ordered that a knife secretly be bought . The purchased blade bore a small manufacturer's mark , so Yü - tzu was told to depose ...
... turned their backs on their parents by refusing to produce heirs ) or of the orthodox academic - bureaucratic system ( men who had failed the civil - service examinations and turned against the system ) . The political behavior of the ...