Death by a thousand cuts / Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.

xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index.