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

  • Brook, Timothy, 1951-
Date:
2008
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

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

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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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JZP.251
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ISBN

  • 9780674027732
  • 0674027736