孔飞力(英文名:Philip Alden Kuhn,1933年9月9日-2016年2月15日),生于英国伦敦,1964年获得哈佛大学博士学位。当费正清1977年从哈佛大学荣休后,孔飞力由已任教十年的芝加哥大学转回母校接替其空缺,任哈佛大学历史系和东亚语言文化系讲座教授。他曾担任过芝加哥大学 远东语言文化系主任,哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任,哈佛大学东亚研究委员会主席。曾获得包括古根汉姆学术研究奖在内的多种学术荣誉,是美国艺术人文科学院院士。本书(1990)为他最主要的代表作,获“列文森中国研究最佳著作奖”;此外他所著《中华帝国晚期的叛乱及其敌人》(1970)、《中国现代国家的起源》(2002)和《海外中国人》(2009)等,均有重要深远的影响。
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 of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. Kuhn weaves his exploration of the sorcery cases with a survey of the social and economic history of the era. Drawing on a rich repository of documents found in the imperial archives, he presents in detail the harrowing interrogations of the accused--a ragtag assortment of vagabonds, beggars, and roving clergy--conducted under torture by provincial magistrates. In tracing the panic's spread from peasant hut to imperial court, Kuhn unmasks the political menace lurking behind the queue-clipping scare as well as the complex of folk beliefs that lay beneath popular fears of sorcery. Kuhn shows how the campaign against sorcery provides insight into the period's social structure and ethnic tensions, the relationship between monarch and bureaucrat, and the inner workings of the state. Whatever its intended purposes, the author argues, the campaign offered Hungli a splendid chance to force his provincial chiefs to crack down on local officials, to reinforce his personal supremacy over top bureaucrats, and to restate the norms of official behavior. This wide-ranging narrative depicts life in imperial China as it was actually lived, often in the participants' own words. "Soulstealers" offers a compelling portrait of the Chinese people--from peasant to emperor--and of the human condition.
最近看完了《饥饿的盛世》,比较全面介绍了乾隆整个执政时期的历史过程。虽然整书不像学术类书籍那么严谨,其中参杂了如野史般的史料,但没关系,作者观点中肯,不少地方有很精彩的评论,最关键是,真的好看,各种有趣,各种荒唐。看《叫魂》前,可以看这本书先,这是一个很好...
评分1768年中国妖术大恐慌,这样一个副标题便足以激起人极大的兴趣.不知这是当时流行的一种写历史方式,或是他和黄仁宇的《万历十五年》谁先谁后,它们都用一种极其细腻生动的手法,走进历史尘埃之中,用一个被诸多“事件”围绕的时间点,前后各方面梳理展开,《万历》从一次细...
评分《叫魂,1768中国妖术大恐慌》VS《女巫,撒旦的情人》 这两本书单独列开了看,都算不得顶好的精品。尤其是《女巫》,小小的一本,里面铜版纸的插图倒有一百七十幅,内容实在很少,也多是些介绍性质的文字,没什么精彩的观点。也贵,将近四十大元。 孔飞力算得上后起一辈中顶...
评分一 铺叙“叫魂”案的目的所在 在国外一群可拢括为“海外汉学家”的学者,他们身在西方却研究着千里之外、百年以前的中国,他们擅长讲故事,读起中国档案馆的存档和奏章甚至比中国的学者还要认真和深刻。他们中最善讲故事的一类被归入叙述史学,前几日来P大很火的史景...
评分1768年中国妖术大恐慌,这样一个副标题便足以激起人极大的兴趣.不知这是当时流行的一种写历史方式,或是他和黄仁宇的《万历十五年》谁先谁后,它们都用一种极其细腻生动的手法,走进历史尘埃之中,用一个被诸多“事件”围绕的时间点,前后各方面梳理展开,《万历》从一次细...
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评分可能因为盛名之下,略微失望,总体水准仍然很高。如果把最后两章的内容放到前面穿插着解读,并且多写一些平凡人对权力利用的事情,可能会更好。
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