Des femmes et du crime : société, modernité et moeurs à Shanghai sous la République, 1911-1949
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 212285682
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- ISBN
- 978-1-4331-6853-6
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- By delving into the Shanghai city archives, Aglaia De Angeli offers an analysis of the lives of female criminals as well as those of victims of crime during the Republican era. Hundreds of court cases, police reports and reports by prisons and detention houses never used before tell us about the environment and the women who hang out there. Shanghai, already known at the time as the Chicago of the East, is seen from a side not yet explored, that of women's history, which offers the reader a new vision of the social and urban history of Shanghai, the metropolis par excellence of modernity in China. During the Republican era, society in China shifted between tradition and modernity, so the history of women with their misdeeds as much as their misfortunes offers us a barometer to understand where Chinese customs and law are heading.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This book offers an analysis of the lives of female criminals and victims of crime during the Chinese Republican era. Hundreds of court cases, police records and prison reports are drawn upon to present a side of Shanghai not yet explored: that of women's history, which offers the reader a new vision of the social and urban history of Shanghai, the epitomic metropolis of modern China. During the Republican era, Chinese society shifted between tradition and modernity. The history of women in this period therefore offers a barometer to understand where Chinese customs and law are heading.
