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Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768

In the reign of Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land clipping off the ends of men's queues (braids worn by royal decree) and stealing their souls. Kuhn chronicles this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers
eBook, English, 1990
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990
History
1 online resource (xi, 299 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780674039773, 0674039777
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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
Theme and variations
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English