Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China

ISBN-13: 9781107126060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Daniel Asen

Opis

An innovative exploration of China's modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing.

Recenzje

'Dealing with the dead involved many important things in Republican Beijing. In this profoundly original study in political, urban, and intellectual change, Asen shows how methods of forensic examination with a millennial pedigree paradoxically participated in the construction of the modern state.' Pierre-Étienne Will, Collège de France

Spis treści

Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Index.