The Global in the Local by Xin Zhang

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/127451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Global in the Local Author: Xin Zhang Narrator: David Lee Huynh Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins Release date: 04-04-23 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: China Publisher's Summary: Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an "Asian culture" of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China.