Daniel Asen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Asen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Asen |
| SIGNATURE | ASEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Knowing Individuals
This article examines the adoption of modern fingerprinting in early twentieth-century China through a case study of the Fingerprint Society, an association affiliated with the Ministry of Interior’s police academy that was active in 1920s Beijing. The members of this association viewed fingerprinting as both a technique that could be used to demonstrate China’s adoption of globally accepted standards of policing and justice and a body of academi…
Song Ci (1186–1249), “Father of World Legal Medicine”
Song Ci (1186–1249) was an official of the Southern Song Dynasty best known for authoring the Collected Writings on the Washing Away of Wrongs (Xiyuan jilu), a work often hailed as the world's first systematic treatise on forensic medicine. While biographical details about his life were known in local history writings during the late imperial period, Song had garnered relatively little attention among those who handled forensic examinations, desp…
Death in Beijing
In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under suspicious circumstances constituted a particularly important population of the dead, subject to new claims by police, legal and medical professionals, and a newspaper industry intent on covering u…
Jindai zhongyi de shentiguan yu sixiang zhuanxing
Vital Spots, Mortal Wounds, and Forensic Practice
The Qing inquest was one function of the bureaucracy which administered justice throughout the empire. Concern over integrity of this component of judicial process fuelled development of standardized techniques to ensure quality of forensic determinations. A key method for determining cause of death was use of knowledge of parts of the body for which trauma could be fatal—the so-called “vital spots.” This way of conceptualizing wounds formed part…
Vital Spots, Mortal Wounds, and Forensic Practice
The Qing inquest was one function of the bureaucracy which administered justice throughout the empire. Concern over integrity of this component of judicial process fuelled development of standardized techniques to ensure quality of forensic determinations. A key method for determining cause of death was use of knowledge of parts of the body for which trauma could be fatal—the so-called "vital spots." This way of conceptualizing wounds formed part…
Manchu Anatomy
Journal Article 'Manchu Anatomy': Anatomical Knowledge and the Jesuits in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China Get access Daniel Asen Daniel Asen * *Fayerweather Hall 611, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 2527, New York, NY 10027-7039, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 23–44, https://doi.org/10.10…
Knowing Individuals
This article examines the adoption of modern fingerprinting in early twentieth-century China through a case study of the Fingerprint Society, an association affiliated with the Ministry of Interior’s police academy that was active in 1920s Beijing. The members of this association viewed fingerprinting as both a technique that could be used to demonstrate China’s adoption of globally accepted standards of policing and justice and a body of academi…
Manchu Anatomy
Journal Article 'Manchu Anatomy': Anatomical Knowledge and the Jesuits in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China Get access Daniel Asen Daniel Asen * *Fayerweather Hall 611, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 2527, New York, NY 10027-7039, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 23–44, https://doi.org/10.10…
Manchu Anatomy
Journal Article 'Manchu Anatomy': Anatomical Knowledge and the Jesuits in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China Get access Daniel Asen Daniel Asen * *Fayerweather Hall 611, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 2527, New York, NY 10027-7039, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 23–44, https://doi.org/10.10…
Vital Spots, Mortal Wounds, and Forensic Practice
The Qing inquest was one function of the bureaucracy which administered justice throughout the empire. Concern over integrity of this component of judicial process fuelled development of standardized techniques to ensure quality of forensic determinations. A key method for determining cause of death was use of knowledge of parts of the body for which trauma could be fatal—the so-called “vital spots.” This way of conceptualizing wounds formed part…
Vital Spots, Mortal Wounds, and Forensic Practice
The Qing inquest was one function of the bureaucracy which administered justice throughout the empire. Concern over integrity of this component of judicial process fuelled development of standardized techniques to ensure quality of forensic determinations. A key method for determining cause of death was use of knowledge of parts of the body for which trauma could be fatal—the so-called "vital spots." This way of conceptualizing wounds formed part…
Jindai zhongyi de shentiguan yu sixiang zhuanxing
Death in Beijing
In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under suspicious circumstances constituted a particularly important population of the dead, subject to new claims by police, legal and medical professionals, and a newspaper industry intent on covering u…
Song Ci (1186–1249), “Father of World Legal Medicine”
Song Ci (1186–1249) was an official of the Southern Song Dynasty best known for authoring the Collected Writings on the Washing Away of Wrongs (Xiyuan jilu), a work often hailed as the world's first systematic treatise on forensic medicine. While biographical details about his life were known in local history writings during the late imperial period, Song had garnered relatively little attention among those who handled forensic examinations, desp…
Knowing Individuals
This article examines the adoption of modern fingerprinting in early twentieth-century China through a case study of the Fingerprint Society, an association affiliated with the Ministry of Interior’s police academy that was active in 1920s Beijing. The members of this association viewed fingerprinting as both a technique that could be used to demonstrate China’s adoption of globally accepted standards of policing and justice and a body of academi…
Medicine (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · China (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works)