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| #1713683 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2008-03-15 | 2008-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x1.07 x6.46l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | ||19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| Profound, disturbing, and enlightening|By Zedrovision|This book is one of the finest examples of scholarship that I've seen.
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The book thoroughly de-sensationalizes the subject matter. The reader will experienc||An ambitious, important book that will stimulate wide reflection. The authors explore the most infamous of Chinese tortures, tracing the ways in which the concept of 'death by a thousand cuts' took on a life of its own in European discourse about China, as wel
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.
A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history,...
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