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 | #352955 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2006-11-01 |  1992-01-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.81 x6.13l,.90 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||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

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 can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768   |  Philip A. Kuhn. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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