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"ref": "2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times",
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"A form of execution used in China from roughly 900 to 1905 C.E., the \"death by a thousand cuts\", in which the condemned was killed by methodical removal of body parts with a knife."
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"word": "ling chi"
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