Bryna Goodman- A Suicide in Shanghai

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Bryna Goodman is a professor of History at the University of Oregon. She specializes in the history of modern China. Goodman discusses her book, The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In it, she argues that the tragic death of Xi Shangzhen illuminates larger discourses that people in twentieth-century Shanghai were engaging in, especially relating to issues of democracy, the political and social role of the press in Chinese society, and gender.