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

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520247185 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520247183 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.0/2 22
LOC classification:
  • DS777.15.S92 L43 2007
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.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks DS777.15.S92 L43 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBC00007705

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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