Suicide of Miss Xi. Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic

by Bryna Goodman

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Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 2021. Stock ID #217076 Black and white illustrations, 339pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Hardback in dustjacket, as new. On September 8, 1922, the body of Xi Shangzhen was found hanging in the Shanghai newspaper office where she worked. As Bryna Goodman shows, the suicide of an educated new woman exposed the emptiness of republican democracy after a flash

• Binding: Hardcover

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