Book #23 on The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf – Philip A Kuhn’s Soulstealers (1990)

Book #23 on The China Project Ultimate Bookshelf Midway through the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the most prosperous period of China’s last imperial dynasty, a mass hysteria broke out among the people. They feared that sorcerers were clipping off the ends of men’s queues (the braids worn by imperial law), chanting magical incantations, and stealing their souls. Kuhn’s book examines this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of the supposed Soulstealers that ensued.

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