lingchi
See also: língchí
English
Alternative forms
- ling chi
- leng t'che
Etymology
From Mandarin 凌遲／凌迟 (língchí).
Noun
lingchi (uncountable)
- A form of execution used in China from roughly 900 to 1905 CE, the "death by a thousand cuts", in which the condemned was killed by methodical removal of body parts with a knife.
- 2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in New York Times:
- The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”
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