the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China Lean, Eugenia creator text bibliography cau Berkeley University of California Press 2007 monographic eng

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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 Eugenia Lean. YT2025 M08 Sun, Chuanfang 1885-1935 Assassination Shi, Jianqiao 1906-1979 Trials, litigation, etc Trials (Assassination) China DS777.15 L437 P 2007 9780520247185 0520247183 SDU 060817