Death in Beijing
Author | : Daniel S. Asen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781107571600 |
Download Death in Beijing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Download Death In Beijing full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Death In Beijing ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Daniel S. Asen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781107571600 |
Author | : Amnesty International. British Section |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Asen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1316712524 |
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.
Author | : Arthur Miller |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-10-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1472592050 |
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.
Author | : Arthur Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Cheng Nien |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802145167 |
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.
Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1101580380 |
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.
Author | : Daniel Nieh |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062886665 |
“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.
Author | : Wing-Shan Cheung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781361070109 |
Author | : Graeme Sheppard |
Publisher | : Earnshaw Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789888422944 |
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.