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

Author:Philip A. Kuhn [Kuhn, Philip A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-09-09T00:13:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

On the Trail of the

Master-Sorcerers

By early autumn, it seemed to Hungli that the spread of queueclipping into North China was only the beginning of much more extensive trouble for the dynasty. Once aware of the political menace lurking behind the queue-clipping scare, he began to alert officials in hitherto unaffected provinces so that the movement could be contained. On September 22, he sent a court letter to the governors of Shansi and Shensi, urging preparedness. The gangs of sorcerers, he wrote, had spread from Kiangnan into Shantung, Honan, and Chihli. Peking already had "many cases," and in recent days even at the summer capital their traces had been discovered. Now that energetic measures were underway in Chihli, who could say that the criminals would not take refuge elsewhere?'

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