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Soulstealers : The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 / / Philip A. Kuhn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674821514
  • 9780674039773
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.951
LOC classification:
  • JQ1508 ǂb K84 1990eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Tales of the China Clipper -- 2. The Prosperous Age -- 3. Threats Seen and Unseen -- 4. The Crime Defined -- 5. The Roots of Sorcery Fear -- 6. The Campaign in the Provinces -- 7. On the Trail of the Master-Sorcerers -- 8. The End of the Trail -- 9. Political Crime and Bureaucratic Monarchy -- 10. Theme and Variations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Tales of the China Clipper -- 2. The Prosperous Age -- 3. Threats Seen and Unseen -- 4. The Crime Defined -- 5. The Roots of Sorcery Fear -- 6. The Campaign in the Provinces -- 7. On the Trail of the Master-Sorcerers -- 8. The End of the Trail -- 9. Political Crime and Bureaucratic Monarchy -- 10. Theme and Variations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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