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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21194816 Title: Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768 Author: Philip A Kuhn Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1990] ISBN/ISSN: 0674821513 9780674821514 0674821521 9780674821521 OCLC:21194816

  
  

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Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768

Author:	Philip A Kuhn
Publisher:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1990]
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
Subjects	Bureaucracy -- China -- History -- 18th century. China -- Politics and government -- 18th century. China -- History -- Qianlong, 1736-1795. View all subjects
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