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

Author/creator Lean, Eugenia, 1968-
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description1 online resource (xiv, 290 p.)
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Public passions Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520247185 (cloth : alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021696858
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