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100 1 $aBrook, Timothy,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86109381
245 10 $aDeath by a thousand cuts /$cTimothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 320 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Execution of Wang Weiqin -- $g2.$tThe Laws of Punishment in Late Imperial China -- $g3.$tThe Origins of Lingchi and Problems of Its Legitimacy -- $g4.$tLingchi in the Ming Dynasty -- $g5.$tTormenting the Dead -- $g6.$tChinese Torture in the Western Mind -- $g7.$tMisreading Lingchi -- $g8.$tGeorges Bataille's Interpretation -- $g9.$tLingering On.
520 1 $a"A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi's abolition in 1905. The authors then turn their attention to an in-depth investigation of "oriental" tortures in the Western imagination. While early modern Europeans often depicted Chinese institutions as rational, nineteenth- and twentieth-century readers consumed pictures of lingchi executions as titillating curiosities and evidence of moral inferiority. By examining these works in light of European conventions associated with despotic government, Christian martyrdom, and ecstatic suffering, the authors unpack the stereotype of innate Chinese cruelty and explore the mixture of fascination and revulsion that has long characterized the West's encounter with "other" civilizations." "Compelling and thought-provoking, Death by a Thousand Cuts questions the logic by which states justify tormenting individuals and the varied ways by which human beings have exploited the symbolism of bodily degradation for political aims."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zChina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118332
700 1 $aBourgon, Jérôme.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001092981
700 1 $aBlue, Gregory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82251926
852 00 $beal$hHV8699.C6$iB76 2008