Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue

320 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark informative slow-paced
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In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers "death by a thousand cuts" or "deat...

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