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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: KUHN, Philip A,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674039773; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674039773?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Philip A KUHN.

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.