Copyright: Turandot.2005

ID: 252
Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot
Title: Stocks: prisoner
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Size_x: 25,5 cm
Size_y: 33,1 cm
Repository: Turandot
Page_number: 23
Color: Hand-tinted
Caption: 此中國囚犯之圖也有人如犯王法經官審明輕者枷打重者罰雙手帶鐵捧子腳帶木狗子項帶鐵鍊收于獄中候發落此自作自受也
This is a picture of a prisoner in China. If the magistrate, in the name of the emperor, decides that [the case] he is enquiring about is light, he has the accused wear the cangue; if the case is serious, he has the accused bear an iron stick (sic, for wooden manacles i, the picture) on his two hands, a wooden dog (?) on his two feet, an iron chain on his neck, which he endures in prison waiting for his verdict. This is «As you've done, so you're treated».
Topic: Chains and ropes (outdoor)
Description: This way of binding convicts is currently reported, and is described in the Huidian. The Chinese caption is particularly obscure and ungrammatical; the term "wangfa", that is the prerogative of Province governors to sentence and execute in serious cases, without waiting the imperial response, applied to this device is very likely misused.
Keyword: stocks

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