Public passions
Subtitle: the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China
By: Eugenia Lean.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520247185
Subjects: Sun, Chuanfang, -- 1885-1935 -- Assassination.; Shi, Jianqiao, -- 1906-1979 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Assassination) -- China.
Other titles: Case of Shi Jianqiao, mass culture and collective sentiment in Republican China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication; value: Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience; value: Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment; value: The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law; value: A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule; value: Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counterrevolutionary sentiment.