Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
A masterful study by one of the West's premier Chinese historians. (Frederic Wakeman, JrNew York Review of Books)Kuhn's fascinating particulars demonstrate how in any society provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt. (New Yorker)A subtle, powerful, and still relevant inquiry into the dynamics of autocratic rule. (From the Joseph Levenson Book Prize Citation)