Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations (page ix)
- Acknowledgments (page xi)
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1. The Assassin and Her Revenge: A Tale of Moral Heroism and Female Self-Fashioning in an Age of Mass Communication (page 21)
- 2. Media Sensation: Public Justice and the Sympathy of an Urban Audience (page 49)
- 3. Highbrow Ambivalence: Fear of the Masses and Feminized Sentiment (page 77)
- 4. The Trial: Courtroom Spectacle and Ethical Sentiment in the Rule of Law (page 106)
- 5. A State Pardon: Sanctioned Violence under Nationalist Rule (page 141)
- 6. Beyond the 1930s: From Wartime Patriotism to Counter-Revolutionary Sentiment (page 180)
- Conclusion (page 207)
- Notes (page 215)
- Glossary of Selected Chinese Names and Terms (page 249)
- References (page 257)
- Index (page 275)