1.Death by a Thousand Cuts
by Timothy Brook Jérôme Bourgon Gregory Blue
Harvard University press,2008
A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi’s abolition in 1905. The authors then turn their attention to an in-depth investi。。。