Cangue

The priests are threatened with the cangue, or heavy wooden collar, and to be chained at the entrance of their ❋ Unknown (2008)

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 neck, in pre-Communist times and dunce caps in the Cultural Revolution. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A third attempt was punished with two months in the cangue, a wooden framework fastened about his neck and hands, used as a portable pillory. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)

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 neck, in pre-Communist times and dunce caps in the Cultural Revolution. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Apart from the weight of their fetters, and of the cangue in which they are thus pilloried, these men suffer much from hunger and thirst. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The cangue, if its wearers were properly fed and screened from the sun, is rather a disgrace than a cruel mode of punishment. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

You, Cousin, you've put your own head into the cangue. ❋ Clavell, James (1981)

His reward was the cangue and bamboo saw -- _nokogirihiki_; failing death by this, he was to be crucified. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Smeared with blood the bamboo saw was placed on the cangue in inviting proximity to the head. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Placed in the cangue at the execution ground of Shinagawa a cut was made in each side of his neck. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In China the crime is set forth on a board hung on the neck of the criminal, called the _cangue_. ❋ George Lynch (N/A)

Here I saw for the first time in my life a man carrying a _cangue, _ and a horrible, sickening feeling seized me as I tramped through the densely-packed street and watched the poor fellow. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

Ching-hsiu from the cangue, and allowed him to go free. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Two thieves were among the foremost, with huge iron crowbars chained to their necks and ankles, while a third prisoner, with his head pilloried in a cangue, obstructed the gaze of many. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)

[*] The ` ` wooden collar '' was the ` ` kia '' or ` ` cangue, '' -- a terrible instrument of torture used in China for the punishment of criminals. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Two thieves were among the foremost, with huge iron crowbars chained to their necks and ankles, while a third prisoner, with his head pilloried in a _cangue_, obstructed the gaze of many. ❋ George Ernest Morrison (1891)

His most formidable enemy was Chamuka, chief of the Juriats, and for a long time he had all the worst of the struggle, being taken prisoner on one occasion, and undergoing the indignity of the cangue. ❋ Demetrius Charles Boulger (1890)