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Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Philip A. Kuhn
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| #773977 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2006-11-01 | 1992-01-31 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.81 x6.13l,.90 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Written like a novel|By CHAK|Do not think of this book as some obscure story of Chinese mystical history. This book is very well written, a nice break if one is used to the wordiness of some academic and historical writings. You may need a quick primer of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty -- even a Wiki review would be OK. Second, this is a story of how an emperor (Qianlong||A masterful study by one of the West's premier Chinese historians. (Frederic Wakeman, Jr New York of Books)
Kuhn's fascinating particulars demonstrate how in any society provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt. (New Yorker)
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 ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 | Philip A. Kuhn. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
