The suicide of Miss Xi : democracy and disenchantment in the Chinese Republic /

When a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizens' rights, gender equality and financial prosperity that were b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goodman, Bryna, 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Xi, Shangzhen. Democracy > China > Shanghai > History. Sexism > China > Shanghai > History. Stock exchanges > China > Shanghai > History. Civil rights > China > Shanghai > History. Shanghai (China) > History. Shanghai (China) > Economic conditions > 20th century. China > History > Republic, 1912-1949. HISTORY / Asia / General.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: A scandal in the city
Shanghai, democracy, and the empty republic
The new woman, the ghost, and the ubiquitous concubine
Long live the republic, long live the stock exchange
Morality and justice in an unsettled republic
A public without a republic?