Author | Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue |
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Language | English |
Genre | History |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 15 March 2008 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 336 pp. |
ISBN | 0-674-02773-6 |
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]