Death by a Thousand Cuts

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Among them are lingchi and other methods of judicial killing in Chinese legal history; the gruesome posthumous punishments shown in some Buddhist propaganda as warnings against bad behaviour; and Western ways of looking at Chinese corporal and capital punishments. Given that from Qin times till now...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pacific affairs 2009, Vol.82 (2), p.334-336
1. Verfasser: Jenner, W. J. F.
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Capital punishment
China
Criminality
Empires
Historians
Historical analysis
Torture
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Zusammenfassung:Among them are lingchi and other methods of judicial killing in Chinese legal history; the gruesome posthumous punishments shown in some Buddhist propaganda as warnings against bad behaviour; and Western ways of looking at Chinese corporal and capital punishments. Given that from Qin times till now the criminal process in China has essentially been one of compiling and handling dossiers there must be very rich material lurking in Qing archives for legal historians to use to go deeper into the theory and practice of judicial killing in dynastic China.
ISSN:0030-851X
1715-3379