Death by a thousand cuts

Death by a thousand cuts

by Brook, Timothy

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Death by a thousand cuts / Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Harvard Univ. Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:XI, 320 Seiten : : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780674027732, 0674027736
  • oclc:ocn237238671
  • LC Classification:HV8699.C6
  • Dewey Decimal:364.660951

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.

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Subjects

Capital punishment Capital punishment -- China China Chinabild Folter Hinrichtung Peine de mort -- Chine Westliche Welt

Writers

Brook, Timothy Blue, Gregory Bourgon, Jérôme

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