Death in Beijing

Death in Beijing
Author: Daniel S. Asen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 9781107571600

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Death in Beijing

Death in Beijing
Author: Amnesty International. British Section
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1989
Genre: China
ISBN:

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Death in Beijing

Death in Beijing
Author: Daniel Asen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1316712524

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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.

Death of a Salesman' in Beijing

Death of a Salesman' in Beijing
Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1472592050

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In 1983 Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre, with Chinese actors. This was an entirely new experience for Miller and for the Chinese company, most of whom had never even heard of 'life insurance' or 'installment payments'. Miller had forty-eight days of rehearsals in which to direct his play and, while there, he kept a diary. This book tells the fascinating story of Miller's time in China and the paradoxes of directing a tragedy about American capitalism in a Communist country, and features photographs throughout by Inge Morath. In this edition, Miller's diary is given a contemporary context as the production and process is investigated against the backdrop of twenty-first century China and its theatre, through a new introduction by Claire Conceison, Professor of Theatre Studies at Duke University.

Salesman in Beijing

Salesman in Beijing
Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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In 1983 Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre, with Chinese actors. While there, he kept a diary: this book tells the story of Miller's time in China, and of the paradoxes of directing in a Communist country a tragedy of American capitalism.

Life and Death in Shanghai

Life and Death in Shanghai
Author: Cheng Nien
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802145167

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A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.

Midnight in Peking

Midnight in Peking
Author: Paul French
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1101580380

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Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.

Beijing Payback

Beijing Payback
Author: Daniel Nieh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062886665

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“Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading.” —The New York Times Book Review A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father’s murder Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.

A Death in Peking

A Death in Peking
Author: Graeme Sheppard
Publisher: Earnshaw Books Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789888422944

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The brutal murder of 19-year-old Pamela Werner in the city of Peking one night in January 1937 shocked the world, but the police never found or named the murderer. A best-selling book, Midnight in Peking, declared the murderer to be an American dentist, but English policeman Graeme Sheppard, 30 years with Scotland Yard, decided that conclusion was flawed, spent years investigating all aspects of the case and came up with an entirely different conclusion. So who did it? Who killed Pamela? This book provides never-revealed evidence and a different perpetrator.