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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 ...
An example of the use of torture and the risk of false confession was seen in The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. These elements still influence modern Chinese views toward law. All death sentences were reported to the capital and required the personal approval of the emperor.
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 ...
Chinese sorcery scares, a series of similar events that took place in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1910. [14] Great Fear (1789) – a general panic that took place between 17 July and 3 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. [15]
Soulstealers: the Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 Harvard University Press 1990 Post-1900 Philip C. Huang: The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988 Stanford University Press 1990 1993 Pre-1900 Martin J. Powers: Art & Political Expression in Early China Yale University Press 1991 Post-1900
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In this course, we will discuss important issues in China's transition to modernity, which was a process intimately connected to East Asian and global transformation at the same time.