Turandot : Chinese Torture / Supplice chinois

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Topic : Audience \| Bamboo beating 笞杖 \| Benches, beds and barrels \| Cage 籠 \| Cangue 枷 Chains and ropes (outdoor) \| Cutting at the waist 腰斬 \| Decapitation 斬刑 \| Deportations 徒流軍遣 Execution ground and around \| Executioners 劊子手 \| Heads exposed 梟示 \| Hell 地獄 Judicial Torture 拷問 \| Judiciary \| Lingchi 凌遲 \| Miscellaneous Police and arrests \| Portrait \| Press and squeezers \| Prison and fetters Slaps \| Strangulation 絞刑 \| Supplice (esthetic representation of) \| Torture tools 刑問具 Undefined \| Various cruelties

ID: 348
Ressource_Provider: Claire Margat
Title: Grotesque representation of cutting at the waist
DocumentNature: Postcard
Repository: Sturani
Color: Color
Caption: Exécution de membres du Tsong-Li Yamen (13 août 1900)
Topic: Cutting at the waist 腰斬
Description: This postcard with a colored picture supposedly show the execution of Chinese officials that colluted with the Boxers, in 1900; speculating on public ignorance, the painter pictured "cutting at the waist", a punishment never practiced for century, which he moreover represented in a highly irrealistic way.
Keyword: waist cut, mandarin, executioner

Derniére modification le : 2007-02-12