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A reference in Chinese fiction[edit]

A reference is made to a similar method of execution in the famous Chinese novel "Dream of the Red Chamber", aka "The Story of the Stone", In this mention, iirc, the emperor specifies (paraphrasing) "cut until he looks like a fish". This sounds like the semi-legendary method of execution where shallow, almost grazing, cuts were made without detaching any flesh, so the end result was something like the scales of a fish.

Regrettably, "The Story of the Stone" occupies three fat volumes in the Penguin edition and I am unwilling (at the moment) to search for the exact location of this mention. If my memory serves me right, it's in the second volume. "The Story of the Stone" was written around the middle of the eighteenth century. Floozybackloves (talk) 06:03, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One of the linked people in "List of People put to Lingchi" is still alive today[edit]

Under "Quing Dynasty" there is a person listed called "Chen De" who died in 1803. The link to this person redirects to a master chess player still alive today.

I don't know how to edit this properly but maybe some of you do : ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:4B42:BC80:E488:56D9:681E:FF0E (talk) 20:25, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Auguste Chapdelaine[edit]

The caption to the image in the lede simply says "An 1858 illustration from the French newspaper Le Monde illustré, of the lingchi execution ... of Auguste Chapdelaine" whereas the History section states "Harper's Weekly claimed the martyr Auguste Chapdelaine was also killed by lingchi but in China; in reality he was beaten to death." --142.163.194.149 (talk) 15:24, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Death thousand papercuts" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Death thousand papercuts and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 8#Death thousand papercuts until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 01:58, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable hyperlink[edit]

There is an example, which is ofcourse not unique of wikipedia, of a questionable or tenuous hyperlink - ie 'western sensationalsied myths' (a rather long phrase to try to hyperlink to and which suggests a very specific article) linking to the 'Orientalism' article. It seems to me like someone tried to horseshoe in a kind of 'agenda' or try to tell people 'this is an example' or this 'is' 'orientialism' (it doesn't link to a subsection), which is not what hyperlinks are there to do. It is up to your own analysis how to properly understand it, but this is not to be communicated with a misused hyperlink on a wikipedia article trying to brashly 'tell' people something is something (besides the numinous and unclear implication concerning the practice as a whole- two sections contradict each other) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A310:E23F:400:EC8C:699E:6905:F06B (talk) 09:42, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The linked source text is "sensationalised Western myth" (important if you expect people to find, and comment on, it in context), which is piped to the Orientalism article, which I don't find misleading, in that the latter term refers to Westerners' romantic, and often deprecatory, view of Asian cultures. Dhtwiki (talk) 20:33, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

basis for categorization of sources into "published accounts"?[edit]

the sections "history" and "people put to death by lingchi" include several references to chinese-language published sources, but there is a separate section "published accounts" that appears to list exclusively western-language accounts published by foreigners. is there some reason that the histories, annals, etc. cited previously are not "published accounts"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.163.179.80 (talk) 01:58, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]