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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... village China ) . In its extreme form , this integration of village with market town meant a kind of slavery to handicraft work . For a swelling population to survive in this densely populated region on ever - smaller parcels of ...
... Village . Acting Magistrate Liu reported that the singing beggar had admitted under torture that he had been recruited by the tall stranger , Chao San , to clip queues . Yet he was unable to make him admit that he was really the Chang ...
... village called Li - chia - chuang in the county of Yi , near the border of Kiangsu . The village was in an uproar because someone reportedly had clipped the queue of Li Kou - erh , the young son of Li K'un , a clerk in the county office ...