Death by a Thousand Cuts (book)
Front cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts | |
| 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.