Death by a Thousand Cuts (book)

Death by a Thousand Cuts
Front cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts
AuthorTimothy Brook,
Jérôme Bourgon,
Gregory Blue
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication date
15 March 2008
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages336 pp.
ISBN0-674-02773-6

Death by a Thousand Cuts is a book by historians Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue, and Jérôme Bourgon which examines the use of slow slicing or lingchi, a form of torture and capital punishment practised in mid- and late-Imperial China from the tenth century until its abolition in 1905.[1]