The Suicide of Miss Xi : : Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic / / Bryna Goodman.
A suicide scandal in Shanghai reveals the social fault lines of democratic visions in China’s troubled Republic in the early 1920s. On September 8, 1922, the body of Xi Shangzhen was found hanging in the Shanghai newspaper office where she worked. Although her death took place outside of Chinese jur...
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Goodman, Bryna, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Suicide of Miss Xi : Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic / Bryna Goodman. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: A Scandal in the City -- 1 Shanghai Democracy and the Empty Republic -- 2 The New Woman, the Ghost, and the Ubiquitous Concubine -- 3 Long Live the Republic, Long Live the Stock Exchange -- 4 Morality and Justice in an Unsettled Republic -- 5 A Public without a Republic? -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A suicide scandal in Shanghai reveals the social fault lines of democratic visions in China’s troubled Republic in the early 1920s. On September 8, 1922, the body of Xi Shangzhen was found hanging in the Shanghai newspaper office where she worked. Although her death took place outside of Chinese jurisdiction, her US–educated employer, the social activist Tang Jiezhi, was kidnapped by Chinese authorities and put on trial. As scandal rocked the city, novelists, filmmakers, suffragists, reformers, and even a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party seized upon the case as emblematic of deeper social problems. Xi’s family claimed that Tang had pressured her to be his concubine; his conviction instead for financial fraud only stirred further controversy. The creation of a republic ten years earlier had unleashed a powerful vision of popular sovereignty and a view of citizenship founded upon science, equality, and family reform. But, Bryna Goodman shows, after the suppression of the first Chinese parliament, efforts at urban liberal democracy dissolved in a flash of speculative finance and the suicide of an educated, working “new woman.” In yet another blow, Tang’s trial exposed the frailty of legal mechanisms in a political landscape fragmented by warlords and enclaves of foreign colonial rule. The Suicide of Miss Xi opens a window onto how urban Chinese in the first part of the twentieth century navigated China’s early passage through democratic populism, in an ill-fated moment of possibility between empire and party dictatorship. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizen’s rights, gender equality, and financial prosperity betokened by liberal democracy and capitalism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Civil rights China Shanghai History. Democracy China Shanghai History. Sexism China Shanghai History. Stock exchanges China Shanghai History. HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh 20th century China. Chinese democracy. May Fourth Movement. Modern China. New Culture Movement. Republican China. Shanghai history. Shanghai. finance. financial bubble. gender. legal history. legal reform. newspaper history. print culture. scandal. stock market. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739114 print 9780674248823 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674259140 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674259140 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674259140/original |
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