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