TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brook,Timothy
AU  - Bourgon,Jérôme
AU  - Blue,Gregory
TI  - Death by a thousand cuts
SN  - 9780674027732
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Institutions -- Law -- Traditional punishments -- Torture -- Executions -- Western Discourse -- Wang Weiqin
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007031346.html
ER  -