Soulstealers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soulstealers write by Philip A KUHN. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Soulstealers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, 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 opens a window on the world of eighteenth-century China.
Soul Stealers
Soul Stealers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soul Stealers write by Andy Remic. This book was released on 2010-10-26. Soul Stealers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the land of Falanor falls, Kell is hunted by the machine-vampires called the Vachine and, while recruiting reinforcements to launch the counter attack, becomes the target of two beautiful, but lethal, vampire assassins. Original.
The Soulstealers
The Soulstealers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soulstealers write by Jacqueline Rohrbach. This book was released on 2019-04. The Soulstealers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arnaka Skytree grew up believing she was chosen to bring new magic to the world. As the heir to the cult of druids responsible for keeping their floating palace habitable for the wealthy aristocracy, she's expected to wield her power as those before her did: by culling the souls of peasant women. But when Arnaka learns more about the source of her magic, and that her best friend's soul will be harvested, she embarks on a journey to end the barbarous practice and to restore a long-forgotten harmonious system of magic practiced by the original druids. Along the way, she discovers she's not the only girl chosen to restore balance to their world--many others have powerful magic inside, and with them, she will tear the floating palace from the sky so everyone can live in the sun--out of the shadow of the eclipse.
Origins of the Modern Chinese State
Origins of the Modern Chinese State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of the Modern Chinese State write by Philip A. Kuhn. This book was released on 2003-08. Origins of the Modern Chinese State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is "Chinese about Chinas modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of societys wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective. The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the "modern constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.
Forging the Golden Urn
Forging the Golden Urn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forging the Golden Urn write by Max Oidtmann. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Forging the Golden Urn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile to independently identify reincarnations. In so doing, they elevated a long-forgotten ceremony into a controversial symbol of Chinese sovereignty in Tibet. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann ventures into the polyglot world of the Qing empire in search of the origins of the golden urn tradition. He seeks to understand the relationship between the Qing state and its most powerful partner in Inner Asia—the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Why did the Qianlong emperor invent the golden urn lottery in 1792? What ability did the Qing state have to alter Tibetan religious and political traditions? What did this law mean to Qing rulers, their advisors, and Tibetan Buddhists? Working with both the Manchu-language archives of the empire’s colonial bureaucracy and the chronicles of Tibetan elites, Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology—a lottery for assigning administrative posts—was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for identifying and authenticating reincarnations. Forging the Golden Urn sheds new light on how the empire’s frontier officers grappled with matters of sovereignty, faith, and law and reveals the role that Tibetan elites played in the production of new religious traditions in the context of Qing rule.
