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Death in Beijing : murder and forensic science in Republican China /
"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 pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316421987 1316421988 9781316714232 1316714233 9781316713662 1316713660 1316714047 9781316714041 |