The Suicide of Miss XI: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic by Bryna Goodman

The Suicide of Miss XI: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic

Bryna Goodman

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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....

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