Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

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Harvard University Press, 2009年6月30日 - 320 頁
Midway 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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1 Tales of the China Clipper
1
2 The Prosperous Age
30
3 Threats Seen and Unseen
49
4 The Crime Defined
73
5 The Roots of Sorcery Fear
94
6 The Campaign in the Provinces
119
7 On the Trail of the MasterSorcerers
149
8 The End of the Trail
163
9 Political Crime and Bureaucratic Monarchy
187
10 Theme and Variations
223
Notes
235
Bibliography
269
Glossary
279
Index
289
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