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 betokened by liberal democracy and capitalism.

• | Author: Bryna Goodman
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2021
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674248823
• | ISBN-10: 0674248821