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Death in Beijing : murder and forensic science in Republican China

Asen, Daniel S., author

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\"In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under suspicious circumstances constituted a particularly important population of the dead, subject to new claims by police, legal and medical professionals, and a newspaper industry intent on covering urban fatality in sensational detail. Asen examines the process through which imperial China's old tradition of forensic science came to serve the needs of a changing state and society under these dramatically new circumstances. This is a story of the unexpected outcomes and contingencies of modernity, presenting new perspectives on China's transition from empire to modern nation state, competing visions of science and expertise, and the ways in which the meanings of death and dead bodies changed amid China's modern transformation\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Murder Investigation China Beijing History 20th century. / Forensic sciences China Beijing History 20th century. / Violent deaths Social aspects China Beijing History 20th century. / Murder victims China Beijing History 20th century. / City and town life China Beijing History 20th century. / Death Social aspects China History 20th century. / Social change China History 20th century. / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History. / Beijing (China) History 20th century. / China History Republic, 1912-1949.
• ISBN: 9781107126060

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV9960.C532 B34 2016	1	BOOK	GENERAL