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Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (poor-quality photograph)
Colombia: More public whippings on the legs by tribal custom, this time of three FARC rebels for disturbing the peace. With news item (2012). UK: Wildman, Eric, campaigner for corporal punishment and retailer of canes, shown displaying his wares, 1947 United States, jocular school paddle issued as advertising novelty by school furniture company, possibly c.1960 This essay has shown that the mass-production of flogging and collaring photographs of Korean subjects was promoted as part of a broader offensive against Joseon-period and Yi dynasty institutions. Japanese mass-media photographs of colonial Taiwan rarely invoked the Qing or the scholar officials who did its bidding. In contrast, numerous post-1905 photos of Korea were of royal Yi family members, the palace grounds, and yangban officials. These photographs emphasized the demotion of the House of Yi that attended the dissolution of the Korean empire (DaeHan Jeguk) in 1910 by showing former emperor Sunjong, now merely a “king,” next to Japan’s crown prince (the future Taishō emperor), or by showing the young heir-apparent Prince Yi Un next to his Japanese tutor, Itō Hirobumi, or alone. Formerly imperial Korean (DaeHan Jeguk) structures, along with royal titles, were all tagged with the character “wang/ō王” to clearly mark that the Joseon was now subordinate to the Japanese tennō 天皇. United Kingdom, a much clearer picture of the Walsall secondary tawse, removed from a school in 1988
Germany: classroom caning of elementary schoolboy, 1960s (possibly a scene from a film, but might be real) An earlier (2009) report on the same subject, including a view of an illegal immigrant's bottom after one stroke of the rotan.
Two brothers were paddled for chronic tardiness to school. Their father supports CP but believes the swats were excessive. The elder boy, 17, talks about his punishment. TV news report from Oct 2009. USA: Burke, Doug, Texas high-school principal, paddled 12 boys at one go in 1996 for hazing, including senior football stars Germany: boy, 11, pretends to be caned as photo stunt for ceremony of putting school cane in museum, Munich, 1970 In short, the photograph in figure 29 alternatively depicted traditional Joseon-era justice, military executions during the Russo-Japanese War, or collective punishment in the wake of the March 1st Movement—depending on which caption is to be believed. Although the occasional photo of Taiwanese casualties of war and rough justice can be found buried in postwar histories, Japan’s first formal colony never produced icons that could match Muhlensteth’s photos or the mysterious postcard (figure 29) of the mass strangulation of (probably) Korean rebels in terms of longevity or reach. IX. Why the Difference in Taiwan and Korean Representational Practices?
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Jamaica: classroom strapping of girl on hand, undated file picture (possibly posed but might be real)