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Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

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

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Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 1992, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674821521

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 1990, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674821514

Hardcover