Hysteria broke out midway through the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, as people feared that sorcerers were clipping off the ends of men’s queues and stealing their souls. Philip A.…
Hysteria broke out midway through the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, as people feared that sorcerers were clipping off the ends of men’s queues and stealing their souls. Philip A. Kuhn’s landmark study on this episode illuminated not just a campaign against sorcery, but the inner workings of the Qing state…
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What an 18th-century sorcery scare tells us about imperial China
