Public passions the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China /
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Berkeley :
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10190620 |
Table of 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.