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Death by tiger bites. Death by prodding. Death from sexual excess. Deaths from over-eating and over-drinking. The opening of graves.
These are a few of the chapter headings in a 13th-century Chinese book called ‘The Washing Away of Wrongs’. It is a compendium of grizzly, gory, bizarre murders and deaths.
Its author was Song Ci, a Confucian trained bureaucrat who, like his fellow officials all over China, was responsible for investigating murders in his jurisdiction. According to the Wikipedia page for ‘forensic science’ this book is the earliest written evidence of forensic thinking. Is that correct?
Our guest today is Daniel Asen, a historian of China at Rutgers University.
This is the first episode in a mini-series from Patented: History of Inventions we’re bringing you all about the invention of Forensics.
Produced by Freddy Chick
Edited by Pete Dennis and Anisha Deva
The actors were Lucy Davidson and Tristan Hughes
The Executive Producer is Charlotte Long
If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe to History Hit today!
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Death by tiger bites. Death by prodding. Death from sexual excess. Deaths from over-eating and over-drinking. The opening of graves.
These are a few of the chapter headings in a 13th-century Chinese book called ‘The Washing Away of Wrongs’. It is a compendium of grizzly, gory, bizarre murders and deaths.
Its author was Song Ci, a Confucian trained bureaucrat who, like his fellow officials all over China, was responsible for investigating murders in his jurisdiction. According to the Wikipedia page for ‘forensic science’ this book is the earliest written evidence of forensic thinking. Is that correct?
Our guest today is Daniel Asen, a historian of China at Rutgers University.
This is the first episode in a mini-series from Patented: History of Inventions we’re bringing you all about the invention of Forensics.
Produced by Freddy Chick
Edited by Pete Dennis and Anisha Deva
The actors were Lucy Davidson and Tristan Hughes
The Executive Producer is Charlotte Long
If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe to History Hit today!
To download the History Hit app please go to the Android or Apple store.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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