Telling Stories

Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History

von Barend Ter Haar

382 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Lexika Interdisziplinäre Studien Regionalstudien / Internationale Studien
• ISBN: 9789004148444
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2005
• Größe: 245 x 166 mm
• Verlag: Brill