Death by a Thousand CutsHarvard University Press, 15 мар. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 320 In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts” or “death by slicing,” this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China. |
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The Laws of Punishment in Late Imperial China | 35 |
The Origins of Lingchi and Problems of Its Legitimacy | 68 |
Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty | 97 |
Tormenting the Dead | 122 |
Chinese Torture in the Western Mind | 152 |
Misreading Lingchi | 203 |
Georges Batailles Interpretation | 222 |
Lingering On | 243 |
Bibliography | 291 |
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