Chinese Torture

"Chinese torture was a different way to punish offenders. It was meant to be "as painful as the human body can resist." Making a person laugh until his death--Chinese invention. The Chinese not only knew extremely well how to get the truth out of anyone, they made victims hate their torturers.
The most common way to make someone speak was with the use of a torture called "the blade." It consisted of a small--very sharp--dagger. The torturer would make one cut at a time to his victim, if he refused to speak, he could go on endlessly. A thousand cuts were not enough to kill a person. He could continue living until all his blood drained out of his body very slowly. This rarely happened since a victim could be cured and tortured for months--or years.
In medieval China, if someone didn't obey the emperor, he'd be killed. If anyone refused to believe in the emperor, he'd be tortured and killed. If someone offended the emperor, what was going to await him is best described as "hell."
That's the reason of the now infamous "Chinese Torture." But it didn't include only cutting and laughing; it was much more. They also developed highly psychological tortures. Depriving sleep was one of the most commonly used.
"The Ball" was totally psychological. It consisted of fixing a person to a wall (in good cases with ropes, bad cases with nails) and tying a small ball all the way from the roof to the head of the victim. The rope would go back and forth hitting the person's forehead until it reached his brain--after many months--and he finally died. In the middle stage of the torturing process, the victim would be shouting in agonizing pain since he could feel how the blood from his forehead was reaching his eyes (sometimes causing blindness)."