ID: 126
Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie
Title: Woman bound to Waist cutter
DocumentNature: Engraving
Repository: Turandot
Page_number: 68
Color: Black and white
Caption: Supplice du dépècement. Dessin de Janet Lange d'après une peinture chinoise du temps des Mings.
Topic: Cutting at the waist 腰斬
Description: Judge Bao orders is underlings to lead this pitiful young lady to this huge waist guillotine; but a ghost will interfere, to reveal the truth... An opera scene that was taken as a faithful represention of a real execution under the Ming dynasty.
Keyword: dismemberment, cutting at the waist, yaozhan

Bibliography
  1:Name: POUSSIÈLGUE, Achille Le Tour du Monde

Related Textual (4)

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

4  Title: Le tour du monde
    Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie
    Internal_Type: Scan

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.

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