Public passions : the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / / Eugenia Lean.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 290 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.