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- Lingchi (IPA: [lǐŋ.ʈʂʰɨ̌], Chinese: 凌遲), usually translated "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts", was a form of torture and execution used in...
- 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...
- for more than two millennia, was banned in 1905 along with flogging and lingchi (dismemberment) as a means of execution, although torture in China continued...
- public market (棄市; qìshì); strangulation (絞; jiǎo); and slow slicing (凌遲; língchí). Other methods of execution were also used. During the Western Han dynasty...
- instead, not chopped at the waist. Hemicorporectomy, a surgical procedure Lingchi, another torturous form of execution used in China Ulrich Lau; Thies Staack...
- metaphors related to creeping normality, including: Boiling frog Camel's nose Lingchi "First they came ..." Habituation If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Moving the...
- Battle of Ningyuan. Yuan met his end when he was arrested and executed by lingchi ("slow slicing") on the order of the Chongzhen Emperor under false charges...
- French newspaper, Le Monde Illustré, of the torture and execution of Father Auguste Chapdelaine, a French missionary in China, by slow slicing (lingchi)....
- animal testing Human subject research Intrinsic value (animal ethics) Lingchi, an execution method in Imperial China New England Anti-Vivisection Society...
- Inquisition, resulting in the victims executed by beheading or slow slicing (lingchi), or having their corpses mutilated (if they were already dead). In 1743...