10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANGUE»
Discover the use of
cangue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cangue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Also in common use, and subject to the same size inflation, was the large
wooden neck board known as a cangue. Although in universal use, the cangue
rested at the edge of legality by virtue of not appearing among the Five
Punishments.
Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue, 2008
2
Reconstructing Cultural Memory: Translation, Scripts, Literacy
Cangue, considering its brevity, uses more truncated sentences which lack
pronouns, subjects, and verbs, as well as formulaic Chinese expressions like "
said smiling" ihsiao tool: "Feng-hsiao put out a hand to feel the trouser leg and
said, ...
International Comparative Literature Association. Congress, Lieven d'. Hulst, John Milton, 2000
3
Korea-Japonica: A Re-Evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin
The word in question in both Middle Korean and pre-modern Japanese actually
means 'cangue', a wooden board with holes for the head and/or hands and feet.
The instrument itself was apparently borrowed into Japan from the mainland, ...
4
An alphabetic dictionary of the Chinese language in the ...
A cangue worn around the neck, a wooden pillory in which criminals are exposed
; to cangue, cangued : com., "Jcid chaik, (coll. tkid />'«/♢,), to cangue and whip ; "
□.kid /twang1 a cangued culprit ; "tkid ngwong* a vow to wear the cangue; "Jcid
...
5
The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in ...
cangue: one year's servitude translated into twenty days in a cangue, while three
years' servitude was twice that. Like whipping, sentencing someone to wear a
cangue was more a form of humiliation, though a very heavy cangue could ...
6
Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
270) In 1728 in response to the recommendation of Metropolitan Censor Li
Zhiyuan, a substatute was promulgated specifically in order to punish the theft of
cattle: Whoever steals one head of cattle shall receive a month in the cangue and
80 ...
Kathryn Bernhardt, Philip C. Huang, Mark Anton Allee, 1994
7
Civil Law in Qing and Republican China
270) In 1728 in response to the recommendation of Metropolitan Censor Li
Zhiyuan, a substatute was promulgated specifically in order to punish the theft of
cattle: Whoever steals one head of cattle shall receive a month in the cangue and
80 ...
Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang
8
Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular Or Spoken ...
_ phah-ké, to beat and put on the cangue. ké-chhat, to put the cangue on a thief.
k6 hit-élfing, put the cangue on that man's neck. k6 i-ékha, put his feet in a sort of
stocks. ke (c), = A. kOe, pickled-fish or shell-fish. ké (C. kee; On. k6), to put ...
9
Chinese-English Dictionary of the vernacular or spoken ...
pAng-ké, to take off the cangac. phah-ké, to beat and put on the cangue. ké-chhat
, to put the cangue on a thief. k5 hit-élfing, put the cangue on that man's neck. k6 i
-ékha, put his feet in a sort of stocks. ke (C.), = A. kOe, pickled~fish or shell-fish.
Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, 1873
10
China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850
The third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica presented the 'cangue' (jia ᬞ)
as the instrument used for “faults of a higher nature.”90 The Edinburgh
Encyclopaedia described the 'cangue' as a kind of “moveable pillory, [. . .] a
wooden collar ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANGUE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cangue is used in the context of the following news items.
High Style and Desperate Love: On the Life and Work of Eileen Chang
Take this scene, from the opening pages of The Golden Cangue: “It was almost dawn. The flat waning moon got lower, lower and larger, and by ... «The Millions, May 15»
Lively City: Get arty for Family Day in Burnaby
This work depicts punishment by stretching the criminal on a wooden bench and cangue barrel; it's part of an album with scenes of ... «Burnaby Now, Jan 15»
Burnaby Art Gallery journeys to 19th-century China
This work depicts punishment by stretching the criminal on a wooden bench and cangue barrel; it's part of an album with scenes of ... «Burnaby Now, Jan 15»
Summer Herald Quiz: Words
A cangue is. a) a large, heavy board put around the neck as a punishment. b) a three- or four-masted sailing ship developed by the Portuguese ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 14»
China Demand Letters: Because They Work
But it is remarkably effective in a country with a long history of punishment by humiliation — think of the cangue, a rectangular slab around the ... «Above the Law, Nov 14»
Chinese Character for Relative, Close: Qīn (親)
In the later bell-cauldron inscription, the character for wood, 木 (mù), was added to 辛 (xīn) on the left to represent the wooden cangue, ... «The Epoch Times, Jun 14»
Driver faces multiple homicide, injuries raps
Cangue is facing charges of reckless imprudence resulting to multiple homicide, multiple physical injuries and damage to property, he said. «Sun.Star, Apr 14»
Truck hits pickup; 7 dead
Truck driver Kim Cangue, who is now under police custody, said the truck lost its brakes. “Four people were killed on the spot while three more ... «Inquirer.net, Apr 14»
10 More Viral Photos That Are Actually Total Fakes
... Chinese photography believe that the women pictured are probably just people on the streets of Shanghai who were posed in that cangue by ... «Gizmodo Australia, Feb 14»
Development and progress of Tibet
For serious offences, use is made of the pillory as well as of the cangue, which latter is a heavy square wooden board round the neck. «Chinadaily USA, Oct 13»
