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Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768

Philip A. Kuhn (Author)
During the reign of Emperor Ch’ien-lung, mass hysteria broke out among the common people, who feared that sorcerers were roaming the land and clipping the ends of men’s braids in order to steal their souls. In his chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecutions that ensued, Kuhn opens a window on eighteenth-century China.
Print Book, English, 1990
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
History
xi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780674821514, 9780674821521, 0674821513, 0674821521
21194816
Tales of the China clipper
The properous age
Threats seen and unseen
The crime defined
The roots of sorcery fear
The campaign in the provinces
On the trail of the master-sorcerers
The end of the trail
Political crime and bureaucratic monarchy
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