Daniel Asen

Research Article
November 18, 2021

Vital Spots, Mortal Wounds, and Forensic Practice: Finding Cause of Death in Nineteenth-Century China

The Qing inquest was one function of the bureaucracy which administered justice throughout the empire. Concern over...
book review
November 17, 2021

近代中医的身体观与思想转型：唐宗海与中西医汇通时代 [Views of the Body and Intellectual Transformation in Modern Chinese Medicine: Tang Zonghai and the Era of Chinese-Western Medical Convergence]

Tang Zonghai (1851-97) is well known as one of the earliest modern proponents of the integration of Chinese and...
Research Article
November 16, 2021

Song Ci (1186–1249), “Father of World Legal Medicine”: History, Science, and Forensic Culture in Contemporary China

Song Ci (1186–1249) was an official of the Southern Song Dynasty best known for authoring the Collected Writings on...