Death in Beijing - Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Asen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, Newark. His published research has investigated the social and cultural contexts of science and medicine in late imperial and twentieth-century China, with attention to transnational and global perspectives. His work has been published in Social History of Medicine and East Asian Science, Technology and Society, as well as within edited volumes on legal history and the history of medicine in China. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the International Society for Chinese Law and History. Klappentext An innovative exploration of China's modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing. Zusammenfassung An innovative exploration of China's modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing. Daniel Asen examines the process through which imperial China's tradition of forensic science came to serve the needs of a changing state and society under dramatically new circumstances. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Asen, Daniel (Rutgers University Asen, Asen Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781107126060
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12606-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Science in History; Science in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; China, SCIENCE / History, LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, Forensic Science