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...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
|
| Series: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
