UID:
almahu_9949703669602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047417231
,
9789004148444
Series Statement:
Sinica Leidensia ; 71
Content:
This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open wounds, suffocation, the loss of hair and the like; the presence of a Drought Demon in the corpses of recently deceased women; and finally the emperor forcibly recruiting unmarried women for his harem. Of interest to historians and anthropologists working on oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts (also from a comparative perspective), but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Telling Stories : Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2006 ISBN 9789004148444
Language:
English
