Notice
Title:
Denial of Lingchi executions by the famous Sinologists Herbert A. Giles
(ID: 347)
Extrait de:
1:Name:
GILES, Herbert A. The Civilization of China
Internal_Type: OCR
Textual_Type: Philosophical and scientific Comment
Publication_Type: Printed
Genre: History
Event_Alluded: Executions by the slicing process (lingchi), death by a thousand cuts
Information_Accuracy: Wrong
Analysis_Accuracy: Controversial
Original_Text_Language: English
Text_Interest: In the midst of an interesting chapter on Law and Government of Imperial China appears a paragraph where executions to death by the slicing process, or "by a thousand cuts", are said to be so rare as nobody ever witnessed one. Strange to be so assertive in a 1911 writing, when photographs of three different lingchi shot in the heart of Beijing were broadly circulated!
Comment: One more example of the denial or downplay of lingchi execution sagagery by Anglo-Saxon writers, such as Couling, Morrison, Alabaster (qq.vv.)
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Derniére modification le : 2012-12-19
