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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