BRYNA GOODMAN / Suicide of Miss Xi Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese

by GOODMAN, BRYNA

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Suicide of Miss Xi. Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic Author: GOODMAN, BRYNA Title: Suicide of Miss Xi. Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 2021 Description: 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 of speculative finance gripped the city. This book opens a window onto how urban Chinese in the early 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. (Publisher's description) When referring to this item please quote stockid 217076. Seller ID: 217076 Subject: All Galleries, Secondhand Asia Bookroom Asia Bookroom is located in Canberra, Australia, specialising in out of print and antiquarian books of Asian interest with some quality new books. Our stock extends from new books hot off the press to rare antiquarian volumes, including a wide variety of books published in ma

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2021
• Condition: Fair

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