Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China

by Daniel Asen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107126061
• ISBN13: 9781107126060
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"