Soulstealers: The Chinese sorcery scare of 1768: Kuhn, Philip (1990) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (299 pp., cloth, $29.95)

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768.by Philip A. Kuhn

✍ Review by: H. L. Kahn 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 611 KB

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768.by Philip A. Kuhn

✍ Review by: Daniel L. Overmyer 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 University of British Columbia Press 🌐 English ⚖ 276 KB

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This book, described as the first work to provide a critical synthesis of over a century of comparative expertise, knowledge, and understanding of diverse sexual forms, clearly does so in an entertaining way. With chapters entitled "Sexual Advances," "Beautiful Bodies," "Dancing Desires," "Erotic Ec