Death by a thousand cuts
Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue
- Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2008
- xi, 320 p. ill. 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index.
The execution of Wang Weiqin -- The laws of punishment in late Imperial China -- The origins of lingchi and problems of its legitimacy -- Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty -- Tormenting the dead -- Chinese torture in the Western mind -- Misreading lingchi -- Georges Bataille's interpretation -- Lingering on.
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Institutions -- Law -- Traditional punishments -- Torture -- Executions -- Western Discourse -- Wang Weiqin
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