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

By: Lean, Eugenia, 1968-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007Description: xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Sun, Chuanfang, 1885-1935 -- Assassination | Shi, Jianqiao, 1906-1979 -- Trials, litigation, etc | Trials (Assassination) -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 951.0/2 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.