Barend J. ter Haar, Doctorate (1990) in the Humanities, Leiden University, is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden. He published on Chinese temple cults, lay religious movements, violence, minorities, including The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity (Brill, 1998).
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.
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今天卡文,對著《後漢書》等瞭半天一個字也不想寫,一氣之下看完瞭田海所著《講故事:中國曆史上的巫術與替罪》(以下簡稱講故事)。之所以購買本書是因為春節看完《唐人街探案2》覺得還可以,閑侃時驀然想起,還真有老外對此進行研究,於是憑著記憶找到此書。今日閱讀後感覺尚...
評分一 這些謠言故事,是一種農業文明下的恐懼。謠言中的怪物,都是用有限的農村生活經驗拼湊起來的。 當這些謠言跨越文化地域時,會根據不同地區做適應性的改變。比如,煞神的形象,在北部是黑眚,到長江下遊是狐妖,在嶺南地區是一種猴子形的鬼。你看,怪鳥、狐狸還有猴子,都是...
評分簡單講能成為爆款的謠言也是在改變的 從唐代的精怪化人到明清轉變中的因大量非正常死亡人口産生的煞氣,再到清中後期的剪辮叫魂,謠言在大框架下的相似度和延續性很值得考究。同時,作為謠言源頭的生存壓力也順著相同的脈絡。 從唐代的野外未開墾土地到明清時過度人口增長的社...
評分2011年早就已經是遙遠的過去瞭,但這年發生的一件怪事仍然讓我記憶猶新。 這年3月份,因為日本發生強烈地震,核電站發生瞭大規模泄露,很多人都在擔心核輻射會危及到一衣帶水的中國。在這種焦慮惶恐的氣氛中,網上突然開始流傳一條謠言說“多吃碘鹽可以防輻射”。普普通通的食...
評分一章還沒看完,就發現兩處硬傷: 第一,p258-259 引《點石齋畫報》圖版,誤將圖中的鵝毛扇當成瞭掃帚。這個低級失誤很有“漢學”特色。隻要是個中國人,無論文化高低,一般都不會犯這種錯誤。 第二,p269 稱唐宋年間,“不管是通過活人獻祭,還是通過其他象徵性的層麵進行的靈...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 民間信仰 宗教與巫術 曆史學 謠言 中國史 宗教史 終日而思,須臾所學
一點點樸素,加上一點點小聰明。我怎麼這麼喜歡西方人研究中國史。
評分A little bit disappointed. He goes too far to emphasize the role of oral communication (the contextual ground of which is hard to be solid) and question pre-existing "labels," though his bibliography might be useful for me.
評分感覺像是資料彙編. 理論也沒有很新穎的感覺。
評分A little bit disappointed. He goes too far to emphasize the role of oral communication (the contextual ground of which is hard to be solid) and question pre-existing "labels," though his bibliography might be useful for me.
評分感覺像是資料彙編. 理論也沒有很新穎的感覺。
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