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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2016
      28 July 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316421987
      9781107126060
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316421987
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 256 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, History of Science: General Interest
      Series:
      Science in History
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, History of Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Science in History
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    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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    'Dealing with the dead involved many important things in Republican Beijing. In this profoundly original study in political, urban, and intellectual change, Asen shows how methods of forensic examination with a millennial pedigree paradoxically participated in the construction of the modern state.'

    Pierre-Étienne Will - Collège de France

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