Comments on: Another reason not to visit Ancient Persia…or really anywhere else in the ancient world http://granitestudio.org/2009/05/20/torture/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=torture A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:35:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: david0fsangabriel http://granitestudio.org/2009/05/20/torture/comment-page-1/#comment-12228 david0fsangabriel Fri, 22 May 2009 21:42:59 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=1176#comment-12228 I will have to study up a bit more on ancient Chinese etiquette and customs before taking my trip to early imperial China (especially on "how not to p*ss off the monarch or the imperial consort & their families"). Anyone have spare tickets? I'll definitely take either the Han or the Tang, and will consider the Northern or Southern Dynasties during any period in which anti-foreign pogroms were not being carried out... I will have to study up a bit more on ancient Chinese etiquette and customs before taking my trip to early imperial China (especially on “how not to p*ss off the monarch or the imperial consort & their families”).

Anyone have spare tickets? I’ll definitely take either the Han or the Tang, and will consider the Northern or Southern Dynasties during any period in which anti-foreign pogroms were not being carried out…

]]> By: Jeremiah http://granitestudio.org/2009/05/20/torture/comment-page-1/#comment-12218 Jeremiah Wed, 20 May 2009 22:14:30 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=1176#comment-12218 Yep, these are my readers.* (*once again shamelessly ripping off some writer named 'Simmons.') Yep, these are my readers.*

(*once again shamelessly ripping off some writer named ‘Simmons.’)

]]> By: Bill http://granitestudio.org/2009/05/20/torture/comment-page-1/#comment-12216 Bill Wed, 20 May 2009 19:48:32 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=1176#comment-12216 The death of a thousand cuts (really not a thousand, it was only hundreds) in China was discontinued in the 18th century. It involves stripping the convict. Tie up the convict tightly with a net so that flesh stuck out through the netting. The executioner than cut two pieces of muscle from the fleshiest part of the body to cover the eyes of the convict. Then cuts are made in various parts of the body,carefully so that the convict remained alive and, preferably, conscious, and only died when the last cut, right through the heart. The death of a thousand cuts (really not a thousand, it was only hundreds) in China was discontinued in the 18th century.

It involves stripping the convict. Tie up the convict tightly with a net so that flesh stuck out through the netting. The executioner than cut two pieces of muscle from the fleshiest part of the body to cover the eyes of the convict. Then cuts are made in various parts of the body,carefully so that the convict remained alive and, preferably, conscious, and only died when the last cut, right through the heart.

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