TY - BOOK AU - Lean,Eugenia TI - Public passions: the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China SN - 9780520247185 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - DS777.15.S92 L43 2007 U1 - 951.0/2 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Sun, Chuanfang, KW - Shi, Jianqiao, KW - Sun Chuanfang. KW - Trials (Assassination) KW - China KW - Verfahren KW - swd KW - Mörderin N1 - 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 ER -