ID: 25
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.

Artworks

	1:Title: Judge Bao delivering a yaozhan sentence
	2:Title: Woman bound to Waist cutter Supplice du dépècement. Dessin de Janet Lange d'après une peinture chinoise du temps des Mings.

Derniére modification le : 2005-11-14