9781107126060-1107126061-Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China (Science in History)

Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China (Science in History)

ISBN-13: 9781107126060
ISBN-10: 1107126061
Author: Daniel Asen
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781107126060
ISBN-10: 1107126061
Author: Daniel Asen
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China (Science in History) (ISBN-13: 9781107126060 and ISBN-10: 1107126061), written by authors Daniel Asen, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Forensic Science (Criminal Law) books. You can easily purchase or rent Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China (Science in History) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Forensic Science books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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