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GANGUE, or CANG

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GANGUE, or CANG , the See also:European name for the See also:Chinese Kia or Kea, a portable See also:pillory, carried by offenders convicted of See also:petty offences. It ccnsists of a square wooden See also:collar weighing from 20 to 6o lb, through a hole in which the victim's See also:head is thrust. It fits tight to the See also:neck and must be worn See also:day and See also:night for the See also:period ordered. The offender is See also:left exposed in the See also:street. Over the parts by which it fastens slips of See also:paper bearing the See also:mandarin's See also:seal are pasted so that no one can liberate the condemned. The length of the See also:punishment is usually from a fortnight to a See also:month. As the cangue is 3 to 4 ft. across the convict is unable to feed himself or to See also:lie down, and thus, unless fed by See also:friends or passers-by, often starves to See also:death. As in the See also:English pillory, the name of the See also:man and the nature of his offence are inscribed on the cangue.

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