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ID: 112
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Judge Bao delivering a yaozhan sentence
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Repository: BNF
Color: Hand-tinted
Topic: Cutting at the waist 腰斬
Description: A famous scene in Chinese theatrical plays of the Yuan dynasty: judge Bao, a magistrate in hell since his death, is adjudicating before his magic mirror and ordering to his infernal runners to inflict the terrible punishment of "cutting at the waist" (yaozhan 腰斬); this fictitious scened is mingled with more realistic renderings of actual penalties in albums specialised in "Chinese torture".
Keyword: waist cut; judge Bao; yaozhan
Related Textual (3)
1 Title: First use of the zha guillotine
Ressource_Provider: Vincent Durand-Dastès
Internal_Type: OCR
2 Title: Lingchi of the evil eunuch
Ressource_Provider: Vincent Durand-Dastès
Internal_Type: OCR
3 Title: The pitiless Judge Bao, Qi yuan bao zongjiang
Ressource_Provider: Vincent Durand-Dastès
Internal_Type: OCR
Related Replication (1)
1 Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot
Title: Cut at the waist 腰斬
Information: A cruel punishment of the antiquity, abolished under the Sui and Tang, which was periodically revived under the Song and the Ming, cutting at the waist left a vivid remembering in popular literature and drama, where it was commonly associated with the popular figure of Judge Bao. He is here represented at the time he orders a young lady to be brought to the zha guillotine (see Vincent Durand-Dastès' Essay). The export watercolor made it a familiar image for Westerners, who were unable to discriminate this fictive image from punishments really in force at their time in China — the caption in the French journal reads: "the cruel punishment of flaying alive. From a picture of the Ming period", thus confusing cutting at the waist, flaying alive, and other punihsments of the past, with the lingchi still in force till 1905.
Related VisualSet (1)
1 Title: Aquarelles de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Derniére modification le : 2005-11-16 |
