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Public passions: the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China

Eugenia Lean c2007 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520247185 (hardcover)
  • 9780520932678 (ebook)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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  • Table of Contents

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  • 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)
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