Public passions : the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / Eugenia Lean.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.

xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.

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