Copyright: Turandot

ID: 319
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Beating: bamboo
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Repository: Turandot
Color: Color
Topic: Bamboo beating 笞杖
Description: AN OFFENDER UNDERGOING THE BASTINADE.
HE is thrown flat upon his face, and held in that position by one, or more, if necessary, of the magistrate's attendants kneeling upon his back, whilst another applies the pan-tsee to his posteriors.
The pan-tsee is a thick piece of split bamboo cane, the lower end of which is about four inches in width, and the upper end small and smooth, to render the instrument more convenient for the hand. Mandarins of power have usually some persons in their train, who attend them with these pan-tsees, whenever they travel, or go into public, and who are ready, at the nod of their master, to exercise their office in the manner described. * After this ceremony, it is customary for the delinquent to return thanks to the Mandarin, for the good care he takes of his education.

* For similar relations of this punishment, See page 488, Vol. II. and
Plate XXXI. folio vol. of Sir George Staunton's Account of Lord Macartuey's Embassy to China. Also note to the description of Plate LVI. of Major Mason's Costume of China.
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UN CRIMINEL RECEVANT LA BASTONNADE.
Il est couché la face contre terre, et tenu dans cette position par un, ou, s'il est nécessaire, par plusieurs, des officiers de justice, à genoux sur son dos, tandis qu'un autre lui applique le pan-tsee, ou la bastonnade, sur le derrière.
Le pan-tsee est un morceau epais de bambou fendu, dont la partie inférieure est d'environ quatre pouces de large, et la partie supérieure mince et unie, pour rendre l'instrument plus maniable. Les Mandarins de justice ont ordinairement à leur suite, quelques personnes, qui les accompagnent avec les pan-tsees, toutes les fois qu'ils voyagent, ou qu'ils vont en public, et qui sont prêts, au signal de leur maître, d'exercer leur office de la manière rapportée.* Après cette cérémonie, il est d'usage que le délinquant remercie le Mandarin du bon soin, qu'il a pris de son éducation.

* Pour de semblables relations decette punition, voyez page 488, Volume II. et Planche, XXXI. vol. folio, du Chevalier Staunton, dans le recit qu'il douse de l'Ambassade du Lord Macartney en Chine. Voyez aussi la description de la Planche LVI. du Costume de Chine, par le Majeur Mason.
Keyword: beating, officer, pan-tsee

Bibliography
  1:Name: MASON, George Henry, Pu-qùa (ill.), DADLEY (grav.) The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French

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1  Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
    Title: Beating: bamboo
    Information: Two slightly different model in the representation of beating with bamboo. The Chinese watercolor, even made for exportation, are more faithful to reality than the 3rd picture, reworked by the British engraver Dadley, who prudishly slipped a trouser on the convict's legs!

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1  Title: The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings with Explanations in English and French
    DocumentNature: Engraving

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