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Death by a thousand cuts /
"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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.