ID: 8
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Exécution de Wang Weiqin
Date of event: october 1904
Date Accuracy: Probable
Place Continent: Asia
Place Country: China
Place Region: Hebei (Zhili)
Place City: Beijing
Place_Street: Caishikou
PlaceAccuracy: Exact
EventNature: Execution
Bibliography
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HARFELD F., Commandant Opinions chinoises sur les Barbares d’Occident
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HEINDL, Robert Der Berufsverbrecher : Ein Beitrag zur Strafrechtreform (The Professional Criminal : A Contribution to the Reform of Criminal Law)
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LITTLE, Archibald (Mrs.) Round about my Peking Garden
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Xingbu Henan si 刑部河南司, zhugao zhushi 主稿主事 Wang Shijie 汪世傑 Xingbu zoudi, xianshen 刑部奏底, 現審 Memorials drafts of the Board of Punishments, Beijing affair (Wang Weiqin trial)
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LI Yizhi 李儀祉 Li Yizhi quanji 李儀祉全集
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Shen Jiawei 沈嘉蔚 Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes 莫理順的今代中國
Essay
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Photographie et vérité historique: Le lingchi de Wang Weiqin Jérôme BOURGON
Photographs
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Lingchi A, 1 arrival The condemned is transfered to the execution field in a cart, hidden from the public, sided by a Buddhist monk— an unusual treatment that reveals a priviledged position. |
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Lingchi A, 1 undressing The condemned, whose body is still intact, is tied to the tripodal gallow. |
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Lingchi A, 2 tied to the post Upper clothes lascerated hang on convict's hips, like an odd skirt — hence some writers believes he is a woman |
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Lingchi A, 2nd cut (breasts) Assistant executioner (with mustach) presents the convict's face to photographer, under supervision of the chief-executioner (back at the foreground). |
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Lingchi A, 2nd cut The two breasts have been carved out, the chief-executioner throws the remains in a basket. |
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Lingchi A, 3rd cut (left biceps) The chief-executioner starts carving left arm biceps. |
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Lingchi A, the basket Chief executioner throws remains in a basket at the foreground. |
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Lingchi A, 5th cut (left leg) Chief-executioner has just carved out left leg |
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Lingchi A, 7th cut: posing Assistant executioners and helpers posing for the photographer, and forcing the condemned's face towards the camera |
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Lingchi A, 8th cut Chief executioner is beheading the corpse, while helpers take off the hair node and ropes that tied the head to the post. |
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Lingchi A, body untied (10) Helpers start untying the corpse, after decapitation |
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Lingchi A, 9th cut Chief-executioner cuts left leg at knee level |
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Lingchi A, body untied (11) Helpers untie the corpse from tripodal gallows |
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Lingchi A, undertakers (13) Undertaker's assistants wearing in funeral white clothes take care of the remains disposed in a basket. |
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Lingchi A, undertakers (14) Exposure of the remains to the crowd |
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Lingchi A, 3rd cut The executioner starts carving the right arm |
Related Textual (3)
1 Title: In China, we are still in the Middle Ages Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie Internal_Type: OCR
2 Title: Li Yizhi- Witness of Wang Weiqin's execution Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon Internal_Type: OCR
3 Title: Outlines of Wang Weiqin's condemnation to death by lingchi. Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon Internal_Type: OCR
Geolocation Asia --> China --> Hebei (Zhili) --> Beijing
Derniére modification le : 2008-01-04 |