Sinica Leidensia

Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History

By: Barend Haar

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Hardcover | 30 November 2005

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This volume introduces Al b. Ubayda al-Ray n (d. 219/834), one of the central figures in the transmission of classical Greek and Persian wisdom into Arabic. It offers an edition, translation, and evaluation of his book "Jaw hir al-kilam", one of the oldest collections of proverbial wisdom and moralia in Arabic, as well as other remaining pieces of his works. The first part of the book surveys the content of his more than sixty books and suggests that among his translations from Middle Persian into Arabic were the "Sindb d-n ma" and "Bilawhar wa-Budh sf". Moreover, he emerges as the author of the famous "al-Adab al- agh r", heretofore wrongly attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffa'. The second part contains the Arabic texts and translations as well as a rich documentation of their sources and their further transmission.

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List of Tables	p. VII
List of Illustrations	p. VII
List of Maps	p. VII
Preface	p. VIII
Introduction	p. 1
The Topic of Investigation	p. 9
The Conceptual Framework	p. 15
Contents and Structure of this Book	p. 28
The Spotted Barbarian and Auntie Old Tiger	p. 37
Warning Children about the Bogeyman	p. 39
Beating the Yehu	p. 45
Auntie Old Tiger: Historical Evidence	p. 52
Auntie Old Tiger: The Oral Tale of the Twentieth Century	p. 71
A Comparative Approach	p. 79
Concluding Remarks	p. 88
Organ-snatching and Foetus-theft	p. 92
Camphor and Willow Deities	p. 95
Early Rumours about Organ-snatching and Kidnapping	p. 106
Indigenous Scapegoats	p. 116
Random Rumours and Exorcist Killings	p. 134
Concluding Remarks	p. 151
Westerners as Scapegoats	p. 154
The Importance of Oral Culture	p. 157
The Yangzi River Valley Riots of 1891	p. 176
The Riots: Scapegoating Westerners	p. 178
The Role of the Gathering of Brothers and Elders	p. 186
Concluding Observations	p. 190
The Gathering of Brothers and Elders	p. 196
Demon Birds and Vicious Foxes	p. 202
Obnoxious Foxes, Fearsome Sha-visits and Demonic Attacks	p. 204
Scares Caused by Dark Afflictions or Queue-cutters	p. 217
Song Rumours of "Flying Hats" and "Dark Miasma"	p. 217
Dark Afflictions: Ming Developments	p. 221
Chicken-attacks and Mixed Scares: Qing Developments	p. 249
On the Spread of Stories	p. 257
Wicked Women and Evil Emperors	p. 282
The Drought Demon	p. 284
The Fear of Imperial Harem Recruitment	p. 299
Concluding Observations	p. 319
Communication and Stigmatisation	p. 322
The Power of Oral Communication	p. 323
Stories and Stigmatisation	p. 336
Why Scares Happened	p. 342
Telling Stories and Collective Action	p. 345
Bibliography	p. 349
Index	p. 373
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