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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kuhn, Philip A. Soulstealers. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990 (OCoLC)551419098 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip A Kuhn |
ISBN: | 0674821513 9780674821514 0674821521 9780674821521 |
OCLC Number: | 21194816 |
Description: | xi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Tales of the China clipper -- The properous age -- Threats seen and unseen -- The crime defined -- The roots of sorcery fear -- The campaign in the provinces -- On the trail of the master-sorcerers -- The end of the trail -- Political crime and bureaucratic monarchy -- Theme and variations. |
Responsibility: | Philip A. Kuhn. |
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A masterful study by one of the West's premier Chinese historians. -- Frederic Wakeman, Jr. * New York Review of Books * Kuhn's fascinating particulars demonstrate how in any society provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt. * New Yorker * A subtle, powerful, and still relevant inquiry into the dynamics of autocratic rule. -- From the Joseph Levenson Book Prize citation Read more...
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