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China Old Postcard Chinese Prisoners in Cangue Gefangene Police Execution Prison

Publisher: Max Noessler & Co. Shanghai 38 Nanking Road
Series No: 289
Background: A cangue is a device used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in China and other parts of Asia. It was similar to the stocks used in the West, except that the board of the cangue was not fixed to a base, and had to be carried around by the prisoner.

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