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The 1768 scare, under the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, centered on rumors of sorcery involving the cutting of men's queues (a legally mandated braided hairstyle imposed by the Qing dynasty) to steal their souls. Another alleged practice involved attaching papers inscribed with names to concealed locations within the foundations or supports of ...
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674821513.. Winner of the 1990 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies，Chinese：叫魂：1768年中国妖术大恐慌; National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China (1990), with Timothy Brook and Min ...
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Place of publication: Oxford: References: ESTC citation number T57753, system number 006329087.: Authority file OCLC: 65350522: Source: Internet Archive from the John Adams Library in the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1894).
1768 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1768th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1768, the ...
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