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The Fear of Witchcraft and Witches in Imperial China: Figurines, Familiars and Demons. By Barend J. ter Haar. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025. xiii + 474 pp. $148 (cloth or eBook).

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The Fear of Witchcraft and Witches in Imperial China: Figurines, Familiars and Demons. By Barend J. ter Haar. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025. xiii + 474 pp. $148 (cloth or eBook).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2025

Robert Ford Campany
Robert Ford Campany*
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https://ror.org/02vm5rt34 Vanderbilt University Email: rob.campany@vanderbilt.edu
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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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1 See Klass Ruitenbeek, “Craft and Ritual in Traditional Chinese Carpentry: With a Bibliographical Note on the ‘Lu Ban Jing,’” Chinese Science 7 (1986): 1–23, and Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter’s Manual Lu Ban Jing (Leiden: Brill, 1993).