Judicial torture and punishments
NoticeTitle: Judicial torture and punishments (ID: 281)
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MALPIÈRE, D. Bazin de (pseudonyme de Louis Bazin?) La Chine. Mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monuments et paysages, 2 vols.
Note(s): (Tom.I, pp.1-12, tom.II, pp.13-30)
Internal_Type: OCR
Textual_Type: Album of images
Publication_Type: Printed
Information_Accuracy: Probable
Analysis_Accuracy: Controversial
Original_Text_Language: French
Text_Interest: This text is presented as a comment of images, which Malpière took in Mason and Alexander, for the most part of them. The images are generally reversed and modified, without indication of their origin, except a general, loose, announcement in the first page of the work. The texts are Malpière's, who gives a profusion of details picked up in travelers' account. Even when exact, these details have loose connections with the images, and they are presented in order to demonstrate that Chinese are cruel and barbarous. Moreover, Malpière invents gloomy details of his own, insuffling artificial likelyhood by connecting them to the images, as misleading captions (see the torture "Burning eyes with lime", for instance). Pirate edition of others' image, added with biased comments makes of Malpière's a very dubious work, antiipating the trash literature that overflowed Europe at the turn of the 20th century.
Geolocation
Asia --> China
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Derniére modification le : 2005-11-18
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