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Death in Beijing Daniel Asen Index More Information Www Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-12606-0 — Death in Beijing Daniel Asen Index More Information Index A Categorized Collection of Beiping Customs Beijing Bar Association, 10n34, 111, (Beiping fengsu leizheng), 54 119–20 A New Treatise on Anatomy (Quanti xin- Beijing No. 1 Prison, 77, 180, 210 lun), 169 Beijing procuracy, 1, 31 Advanced School for Police Officials of the and city police, 80, 84 Ministry of Interior, 141 and homicide investigation, 1, 42, 53, 55, Ai Shiguang (Ngai Shih-kuang), 170, 171 58, 70–1, 80, 84, 110, 182 anatomy, 4, 11, 51n87, 194 and skeletal examinations, 87, 96, anatomy laws, 162, 165–6, 171, 178, 102, 187 182, 184 criticisms of, 119, 122 and forensic knowledge of inspection forensic caseload of, 48, 79, 80, 83, 85 clerks, 67, 76, 185, 217, 219 Beijing-Hankou Railway, 25, 51 general importance of, 163, 166, 169, Beijing-Suiyuan Railway, 25, 35 170, 185 Beijing-Tianjin Railway, 44 schemes for obtaining cadavers, 85, 176, Beiping. See Beijing 178, 180 Beiping Bar Association. See Beijing Bar Andrews, Bridie, 10n34 Association Anhui, 202 Beiping Local Court, 1n2, 2, 173 Arnold, David, 18 Beiping Medical Journal (Beiping yikan), 209 arsenic, 13, 188, 188n8, 203, 206n63, 211 Beiping Municipal Hospital, 181, 182 automobiles, accidents involving, 49, 50, Beiping University, 126 52, 110–11, 116, 223 Beiping University Medical School, 199, autopsy, 23, 159 211, See also National Medical College criticisms of, 162, 169 in Beijing forensic uses of, 3, 21, 80, 121, 124, 125, Institute of Legal Medicine, 2, 16, 125, 151, 160, 165, 166–8, 193, 198, 208 131, 189, 196, 203, 207 medical uses of, 170, 177, 178 Beiping-Mukden Railway, 1, 25 police supervision over, 178, 179 Bertillonage, 13 redundancy of, 154, 163, 184, 185 Bingyin Medical Society, 174–5 blood evidence, 13, 123, 125, 127, 129n41, Beggars’ Home, 46n67 136, 138, 144, 146, 148, 152–4, 155, Beijing 195, 198, 202, 214, 217 administration under the Qing, 42 Blue, Gregory, 23, 91 city gates, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 37, 38, Board of Punishments, 42, 72, 104–5 43, 47, 47n71, 48, 71, 110, 136 Book of Songs (Shijing), 73 Japanese occupation of, 85, 216 Bourgon, Jérôme, 23, 91 layout of, 27 Boxer Uprising, 35, 57 population of, 27 Bray, Francesca, 108 suburban districts, 27, 33, 34, 41n53, Brook, Timothy, 23, 91 70, 82 Buddhism, 30, 91 under the Nationalists, 191 Bureau of Hygiene, 48n75, 84, 181 251 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-12606-0 — Death in Beijing Daniel Asen Index More Information 252 Index Bureau of Public Safety, 1, 29, 38, 45, 82–4, 97n30, 212, See also Washing Away of 181, 183 Wrongs Bureau of Social Affairs, 33n23, 41n53, Collection of Rejected Cases (Boan huibian), 46n67, 180 60n14 burial grounds, 2, 29, 33–4, 41, 43, colonialism, 12 47n71 common knowledge (changshi), 128, 159, burial permits, 26, 37, 39, 43, 45, 53, 59, 175, 213 79, 83, 179, 183 compensation, 32, 52 Burney, Ian, 205, 223n19 confessions, 95, 136, 149n41, 206 Confucianism, 91, See also Cheng-Zhu Cai Yuanpei, 193 orthodoxy Capital High Court, 137, 144, 145, 155 coroners (Anglo-American), 8, 223n19 Capital High Procuracy, 74 corpses Capital Local Court, 71, 78, 142, 143, 144, and public hygiene, 40, 46 145, 152 and somatic integrity, 20–4, 51, 91, 92, Capital Local Procuracy. See Beijing 95, 161, 162, 186 procuracy decay and other changes, 86, 89, 97, 118, Capital School of Law and Politics, 145 206, 207 Cases of Beiping Detectives (Beiping zhentan discovered in public places, 42, 43, 44–5, an), 113–16 49, 84, 182 Cases of Judge Shi (Shi gong’an), 94–6 gendering of, 44, 51 cause of death, 9, 185 identification of, 34, 45, 46, 70, 116 and mortal wounds, 78, 164 legal protections over, 92, 95, 96 classification of, 48 not claimed by relatives in order Central Political Council, 193 to exert pressure in a dispute, 52, Central University Medical School, 192, 93, 177 194, 218 county magistrates, 8, 60, 74, 90, 187, chemical testing, 121, 124, 188, 204, 206 207, 208 Crawford, Catherine, 63 chemistry, 124, 130, 149, 164, 209, cremation, 40 210, 211 crime scenes, 13, 136, 140, 141, 146, 152 Chen Kangyi, 202n50, 218n9 Crossland, Zoë, 24n73 Chen Kuitang, 161, 168, 169, 170, 177, 186 death Chen Yuan, 69 and criminal suspicion, 4, 38, 40, 43, 79, Chen Zhiqian (C.C. Chen), 14n47, 174 80, 81, 83, 84 Chen, Janet Y., 53 and modernity, 26, 54 Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy, 22, 92 culture of in Beijing, 26 Chiang Kai-shek, 191 medicalization of, 29 China Times (Shishi xinbao), 132 death certificates (medical), 38, 39 Chinese medicine, 19, 29n10, 85, 221 death ritual, 4, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30–2, 46, modern criticisms of, 121, 164 54–5, 92 Chinese Red Cross Society, 46 state regulation of, 41, 55 Chongqing, 195, 218 defense lawyers, 143, 145, 148, 152 Christianity, 38 delayed burial, 41, 94 Chu Minyi, 98, 100 Despeux, Catherine, 101 Classic of Filiality (Xiaojing), 176 detective novels, 48, 114, 116 clerks, 64, 68, 100 detectives, 4, 5, 6, 111, 113–16, 140, 156 coffins Ding Fubao, 150n44 police expenditures on, 45 disciplines, 189, 218, 219 storage prior to burial, 29, 33, 34, 54 disputes over forensic evidence, 86, 87, 88, Collected Evidence for Inquests (Jianyan 90, 91, 93, 117, 118, 155 jizheng), 60n14 dissection, assumed Chinese aversion to, Collected Writings on the Washing Away of 21, 175–7, 185 Wrongs (Xiyuan jilu), 6, 20, 61–2, 97, Dong, Madeleine Yue, 27, 223 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-12606-0 — Death in Beijing Daniel Asen Index More Information Index 253 Duan Qirui, 9, 50, 57, 58, 82 Gendarmerie, 35, 36, 82 Dudgeon, John, 37 Germany, 5, 63, 123, 147, 149, 150, 160, 161, 191, 194, 211 East Station, 1, 6, 8, 55, 217 Gluck, Carol, 224 Eastern Mausolea, plundering of, 88 Gong Shucang, 122 Egypt, 12 Goodman, Bryna, 113 Elman, Benjamin, 18 Grant, John B., 39 Empress Dowager Cixi, 88 grave robbery, 33, 88 Essentials of Trying Lawsuits (Tingsong Great Britain, 12, 13, 53n95, 63, 119, 150, qieyao), 101n46 194, 205 Europe, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 35, 69, 122, Greene, Roger S., 172, 178, 180 149, 161, 176, 179, 193, 197 Gu Nanqun, 162 evidence, rules of, 137, 151 Guangxi, 202 exhumation, for forensic purposes, 91, 92, Guangzhou, 195 93, 94, 95, 118 guilds, 33 expert appraisals (jianding), 146, 149, 153 written reports, 3, 127, 128, 131, 150, Hankou, 81, 195 167, 202, 210 Hebei, 43, 72, 102, 106, 187, 188, 189, expert witnesses (Anglo-American), 75, 202, 203n56 137n2, 150 Hebei High Court, 78n75, 109, 187–8, expertise, 79, 88 207, 211 boundary between experts and non- Heilongjiang, 67 experts, 107, 113, 124, 200 Heinrich, Ari Larissa, 169, 175 extraterritoriality, 112, 119, 160, 219 Henan, 189, 202, 209 Eyferth, Jacob, 9 Henriot, Christian, 45n65 heroin, 181 facts (shishi), 3, 131, 144, 156–7, 169 Hobson, Benjamin, 169 false accusations, 22, 89 Hospital for Infectious Diseases, 182, 183 Fang Yiji, 41 hospitals, 38 Feng Yuxiang, 35, 57, 58, 81, 191 and assistance in forensic cases, 188, Fengtian, 67, 69, 87, 106 203, 207 Fengtian High Procuracy, 109 emergency medical services of, 52, Fingerprint Society, 141, 142n14, 147 110, 138 fingerprinting, 12n39, 13, 116, 123, 136, Hu Yepin, 51n87 141–2, 147 Huang Qinglan, 78 Fingerprinting Magazine (Zhiwen Huang Ruiting, 191 zazhi), 116 Hubei, 202 First National Midwifery School, 15n49 Hui Hong, 141 Five Sages Temple, 53 Hunan, 101n47, 202 Five Wards, 42 hygienic modernity (weisheng), 166 forensic entomology, 61, 123, 211 forensic medicine, 11n37, 12, 122, 146, See imperialism, 12, 166, 176, 219 also legal medicine Important Points for Handling Cases (Ban’an forensic pluralism, 84, 131, 135, 169, 190, yaolüe), 101n46 204, 212, 220 India, 18 forensic psychiatry, 194 Industrial Bank of Zhejiang, 136, 140 forensic science, 11n37, 223 injustices, 118, 122, 148, 158, 161 modern developments in, 13 and the afterlife, 92 France, 5, 63, 63n24, 120, 143 inspection clerks, 4, 8, 17, 43, 72, 73, 74, French Concession (Shanghai), 21 108, 113, 154, 200, 201 funeral homes, 29 as experts, 88, 104, 108 funeral permits, 37 criticisms of, 114, 117, 125, 157 during New Policies reforms, 67, 68 Gamble, Sidney, 31, 36n35 examination practices of, 71, 79, 85, 131, Gansu, 202, 204, 207 134, 139, 166 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-12606-0 — Death in Beijing Daniel Asen Index More Information 254 Index inspection clerks (cont.) judiciary, 14, 109, 202, 214, 221 female trainees, 217 forensic responsibilities of judicial offi- of Shanghai, 98 cials, 15, 60, 125, 138, 204, 214 professional status of, 74, 78, 107, 119, responsiveness to petitioners and liti- 157, 222 gants, 93 salaries of, 75, 82, 214 underfunding of, 74, 196, 218 training of, 68, 73, 74, 75–6, 78, 201, 213, 216–17, 219 Kawashima Naniwa, 35 Institute for the Training of Judicial Kuo, Margaret, 93n19 Officials, 128n40 Kyuˉshuˉ Imperial University College of International Settlement, 167, 197 Medicine, 126 Ishikawa Kiyotada, 170n26 Islam, 30, 38 L’Impartial (Dagong bao), 174 Italy, 63 laboratories, 124, 134, 193, 196, 198, 203, 204, 215 Japan, 5, 10, 18, 26, 35, 50n82, 59, 67, 119, and the collection of evidence, 209, 150, 152 212, 222 forensic practices of, 11n37, 67, 69, 122, as used by judicial officials, 2, 109, 207–9, 146, 149, 185, 193, 211, 219 220, 221 influence on Chinese law, 5, 143, 149 laboratory science, 80, 113, 157, 221 influence on medicine in China, 121, and modern forensic disciplines, 13 122, 123,
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