RT Book T1 Death in Beijing: murder and forensic science in Republican China T2 Science in history A1 Asen, Daniel S. A1 Asen, Daniel LA English PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY PB Cambridge University Press YR 2016 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/857181203 AB "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"-- AB 1. Suspicious deaths and city life in Republican Beijing -- 2. On the case with the Beijing procuracy -- 3. Disputed forensics and skeletal remains -- 4. Publicity, professionals, and the cause of forensic reform -- 5. Professional politics of a crime scene -- 6. Dissection and its discontents -- 7. Legal medicine during the Nanjing decade -- Conclusion: A history of forensic modernity -- Glossary CN HV9960.C532 SN 9781107126060 SN 9781107571600 K1 Murder : Investigation : China : Beijing : History : 20th century K1 Forensic sciences : China : Beijing : History : 20th century K1 Violent deaths : Social aspects : China : Beijing : History : 20th century K1 Murder victims : China : Beijing : History : 20th century K1 City and town life : China : Beijing : History : 20th century K1 Death : Social aspects : China : History : 20th century K1 Social Change : China : History : 20th century K1 Murder : Investigation : History : 20th century : China : Beijing K1 Forensic sciences : History : 20th century : China : Beijing K1 Violent deaths : Social aspects : History : 20th century : China : Beijing K1 Murder victims : History : 20th century : China : Beijing K1 Death : Social aspects : History : 20th century : China K1 China : History : Republic, 1912-1949 K1 Beijing (China) : History : 20th century K1 Peking : Mord : Sozialgeschichte : Sozialer Wandel : Forensik