Death by a Thousand Cuts

Timothy Brook

Jérôme Bourgon

Gregory Blue

  • 2008 Finalist for the The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publisher, World History and Biography/Autobiography Category

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. The Execution of Wang Weiqin

2. The Laws of Punishment in Late-Imperial China

3. The Origins and Legitimacy Problems of Lingchi

4. Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty

5. Tormenting the Dead

6. Chinese Torture in the Western Mind

7. Qing Executions and European Supplices

8. Georges Bataille and the Supplicé Chinois

9. Retrospective

Notes

Bibliography

Index

  • Cover: Death by a Thousand Cuts
  • A photo of the author

photo of Timothy Brook (top), Jérôme Bourgon (center), and Gregory Blue (bottom)

Timothy Brook is Principal at St. John's College, University of British Columbia.

Jérôme Bourgon is Researcher at the Institut d’Asie Orientale / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon.

Gregory Blue is Associate Professor of History, University of Victoria.