The zanzhi (拶指) finger crusher was a Chinese instrument of torture consisting of small sticks strung together with cords, which when placed around the fingers and gradually pulled, caused agonizing pain in order to force a confession. Under traditional Chinese law, a person could not be convicted of a crime unless they confessed. The zanzhi was a legal and non-lethal torture method for forcing women to confess, and for men there was the similar and more painful jiagun (夾棍) ankle crusher with three wooden planks that slowly compressed the feet.
The zanzhi (拶指) finger crusher was a Chinese instrument of torture consisting of small sticks strung together with cords, which when placed around the...
torturing men to confess, and for women there was the similar and less painful zanzhi finger crusher with small sticks and cords. The word jiāgùn is written with...
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sent him to Tai'an, to establish party organizations. Wang Zhongxiu and Yu Zanzhi were sent to Tai'an soon after. They recruited Qin Shaoxiang and Sun Jianlin...
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