cangue
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thumb|upright|Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society. The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by [[Pierre Borie in captivity.]]
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- A man in a cangue in Shanghai, photographed by John Thomson . The label reads "上海縣正堂，封," meaning "Sealed by the Shanghai County Magistrate." The offender had to rely on passersby for food.
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- wooden cangue
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- cangue lock
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thumb|upright|Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society. The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by [[Pierre Borie in captivity.]]
A cangue ( ), in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha (), is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia and some other parts of Southeast Asia until the early years of the twentieth century. It was also occasionally used for or during torture. Because it restricted a person's movements, it was common for people wearing cangues to starve to death as they were unable to feed themselves.