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A mass grave uncovered in China has been found to contain 43 victims of headhunting massacres, with 32 of them, all women and children, killed in a single event.
A 3,000-year-old Chinese skeleton found in a tomb in 1999 has been reexamined and the results suggest it is the oldest example of punitive foot amputation.
The life of a eunuch living in the Forbidden City of ancient China was difficult, but sometimes it offered a person unexpected possibilities to gain incredible power.
China recently banned its football players from having tattoos. Long viewed as uncivilised by Han Chinese, tattoos were used as a form of punishment whose victims, incapable of rehabilitation, joined crime gangs.
Finally banned in 1924, the system had endured for over 3,000 years and through 25 dynasties.