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Lean, Eugenia, 1968-

Public passions the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / [electronic resource] : Eugenia Lean. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xiv, 290 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA709950 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sun, Chuanfang, 1885-1935 --Assassination.
Shi, Jianqiao, 1906-1979 --Trials, litigation, etc.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Trials (Assassination)--China.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS777.15.S92 / L43 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 951.0/2