Brook, Timothy <br/><br/>
Death by a thousand cuts 
Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  Harvard University Press  2008 
 - xi, 320 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674027732 0674027736 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Institutions -- Law -- Traditional punishments -- Torture -- Executions -- Western Discourse -- Wang Weiqin