[The China Project] The young woman’s suicide that shocked Shanghai

A century ago today, Xi Shangzhen, the first woman employee of a
progressive Shanghai newspaper, committed suicide. The case
transcended individual tragedy after details of her life were
seized upon by the media to debate the social and economic
upheaval of the times.


Click here to read the article by James Carter.


Narrated by John Darwin Van Fleet.


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