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  1. Ruling the Dead: Rulership, Spirit Pacification, and the Water-Land Retreat in Fourteenth-Century East Asia

    Spirit pacification is the practice of neutralising, through conciliatory or coercive means, the potentially malevolent spirits of the dead, thereby restoring peace and stability to the realm of the living. Catastrophes such as warfare, famine, or epidemic generated mass casualties. Political …

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