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Post by a Thousand Cuts
- Wan-Chuan Kao (author)
Chapter of: Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida(pp. 69–81)
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| Title | Post by a Thousand Cuts |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Wan-Chuan Kao (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0171.1.06 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/going-postcard-the-letters-of-jacques-derrida/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Kao, Wan-Chuan |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2017-05-15 |
| Long abstract | could purchase postcards with photographs or illustrations of “Chinese tortures” (les supplices chinois) and mail them home. The particular artifact in figure 1, sent from China to France in 1912, depicts a man being executed by lingchi (凌遲 “slow slicing,” or “death by a thousand cuts”). This postcard is one it-eration of the West’s persistent horror at and fascination with lingchi. Another example is a post-execution photograph of dismembered body parts reproduced in Henry Norman’s The Peoples and Politics of the Far East in 1895 (fig. 2).2 As historians point out, foreign military occupation of Beijing following the Boxer Rebellion allowed Europeans, especially those able to afford a camera, to roam the country more or less at will. Im-ages of lingchi executions began to circulate as curiosities and mementos — especially in the form of postcards — in Europe. |
| Page range | pp. 69–81 |
| Print length | 13 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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