{"id":346,"date":"2008-01-07T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/07\/punishments-of-china-1804\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:28:45","slug":"punishments-of-china-1804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/07\/punishments-of-china-1804\/","title":{"rendered":"punishments of china (1804)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>i usually rely on european or american examples when teaching the history of punishment (e.g., discipline and punish<\/a><\/em>). if you’d like to move beyond these familiar examples, boing<\/a> and the digital gallery of the new york public library offer some 200-year-old materials on punishment in china.<\/p>\n

i cannot vouch for their historical accuracy, but the punishments of china: illustrated by twenty-two engravings<\/em><\/a> (published 1804) certainly offers grimly compelling images. the library catalog record<\/a> lists george henry mason as author, but here is the full citation information for the hamstringing <\/em>engraving shown above.<\/p>\n

Creator: Dadley, J.<\/a> — Engraver
\nImage Caption: Hamstringing a malefactor.
\nIn: The punishments of China : illustrated by twenty-two engravings<\/a> : with explanations in English and French. (published 1804)
\nLibrary Division:Humanities and Social Sciences Library \/ Art and Architecture Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs<\/a>
\nDescription:[54] p., 22 leaves of plates : 22 col. ill. ; 38 cm.
\nItem\/Page\/Plate Number:Pl. 17
\nMedium:Engravings
\nSpecific Material Type:prints
\nSubject(s):Costumes — Chinese <\/a>
\nPunishment & torture — China <\/a>
\nCollection Guide:Customs and Costume: Surveys and Examples of National Studies, to 1900<\/a>
\nDigital Image ID:1565324
\nDigital Record ID:1056437
\nDigital Record Published:3-29-2007; updated 10-5-2007
\nNYPL Call Number:3-MMR+ (Mason, G. H. Punishments of China)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i usually rely on european or american examples when teaching the history of punishment (e.g., discipline and punish). if you’d like to move beyond these familiar examples, boing and the digital gallery of the new york public library offer some 200-year-old materials on punishment in china. i cannot vouch for their historical accuracy, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-punishment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}