Public passions : the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China /
Eugenia Lean.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
- 290 p. : ill.
The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication -- Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience -- Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment -- The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law -- A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule -- Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counter-revolutionary sentiment. HKBU library
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Sun, Chuanfang, 1885-1935 --Assassination. Shi, Jianqiao, 1906-1979 --Trials, litigation, etc.