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"Calling Souls" Subtitle: The Great Chinese Witch Panic of 1768 Author: [US] Kong Feili Popular Overseas Sinology Book No. 1
"Calling Souls" Subtitle: The Great Chinese Witch Panic of 1768 Author: [US] Kong Feili Popular Overseas Sinology Book No. 1
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book tells a story about "the magic of prosperity". In the millennium of the Chinese imperial system, Emperor Qianlong was an unprecedented figure. The Qing Empire he established and consolidated reached the pinnacle of power and prestige. However, the political and social life of the entire Qing Dynasty was disturbed by a magic called "calling souls". In the months from spring to autumn in 1768, this evil wind actually hit half of China, causing panic among the people, officials to run around for it, and even Emperor Qianlong to be unable to sleep or eat. The author Kong Feili's meticulous description is thrilling. He vividly reproduces how the panic in various provinces evolved into a nationwide movement to eliminate the evil spirit.
This book also demonstrates a broader academic vision. In the process of constructing a "grand narrative" centered on the "Soul Calling" case, it combines social history, cultural history, political history, economic history, regional analysis, bureaucratic system analysis, and psychological analysis at the methodological level.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Philip A. Kuhn was born in London, England in 1933 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964. When John King Fairbank retired from Harvard University in 1977, Kuhn returned to his alma mater from the University of Chicago, where he had taught for ten years, to take over his position as a professor of history and East Asian languages and cultures at Harvard University. He has served as the director of the Department of Far Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Chicago, the director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University, and the chairman of the Committee on East Asian Studies at Harvard University. He has won many academic honors including the Guggenheim Scholarship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Humanities. Calling Souls (1990) is his representative work and won the "Levenson Award for the Best Book in China Studies". In addition, his works such as Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China (1970), The Origins of the Modern Chinese State (2002) and The Chinese in the Other World (2009) have all had important and far-reaching influences.
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