Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 by Philip A. Kuhn

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

Philip A. Kuhn

320 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative mysterious slow-paced
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Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends...

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