Death of a Young Shanghailander: The Thorburn Case and the Defence of the British Treaty Ports in China in 1931
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: On June 4th 1931 theNorth China Daily News—the principal British owned English-language newspaper in Shanghai published a small report on page 12 headed ‘Alleged crime by foreigner: Shooting affair on the Nanking railway: Held by military authorities’ This went on to state a Russian had been arrested for the murder of two Chinese gendarmes on the 1st of June at 10pm. He had been challenged as a prelude to a search but had fired on them and escaped having fatally wounded two men. The following morning a ‘suspicious looking foreigner’ had been arrested in the vicinity and was still being held in custody. The source of this story was the previous day'sShenbao, the leading Shanghai Chinese newspaper which had picked up the story from the Suzhou press. The Russian's name was given asXi si ke tuo qu luo—which might be transliterated as ‘Sea Scout’, for reasons which will become clear.
Source: Modern Asian Studies
Author: R. A. Bickers
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1985271850