Public passions : the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China /
Lean, Eugenia,1968-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2007.
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.
Sun, Chuanfang, 1885-1935
Shi, Jianqiao, 1906-1979
Trials (Assassination)