Public Passions
内容简介
In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple. This riveting work of history examines this well-publicized crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. In a fascinating investigation of the media, political, and judicial records surrounding this cause célèbre, Eugenia Lean shows how Shi Jianqiao planned not only to avenge the death of her father, but also to attract media attention and galvanize public support. Lean traces the rise of a new sentiment--"public sympathy"--in early twentieth-century China, a sentiment that ultimately served to exonerate the assassin. The book sheds new light on the political significance of emotions, the powerful influence of sensational media, modern law in China, and the gendered nature of modernity.
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作者简介
Eugenia Lean is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
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目录
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgmets
Introduction
1. The Assassin and Her Revenge: A Tale of Moral Heroism and Female Self-Fashioning in an Age of Mass Communication
2. Media Sensation: Public Justice and the Sympathy of an Urban Audience
3. Highbrow Ambivalence: Fear of the Masses and Feminized Sentiment
4. The Trial: Courtroom Spectacle and Ethical Sentiment in the Rule of Law
5. A State Pardon: Sanctioned Violence under Nationalist Rule
6. Beyond the 1930s: From Wartime Patriotism to Counter-Revolutionary Sentiment
Conclusion
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读书文摘
由市民协会、妇女团体和其他公众教育机构和军事组织发出的请求政府特赦的电报组成了一种有力的叙述，即，有美德的复仇构成了国家真实性的一种形式，并且国家的特赦将给国民党政权提供一个千载难逢的机会来推崇民族主义的“新生活”的理念。在这个语境下，我们可以把政府对施剑翘和郑继成的特赦理解为政权企图把处于这些复仇案件核心的正义感引导为对国家统治的忠诚的努力。
施剑翘杀军阀事件中媒体称赞和公众参与对政府当局的无能提出了颇具威胁性的批判。施成功地杀死军阀在媒体和娱乐界被当作狭义的行为而赞颂，它被视为拯救国家的行为和对狭义（公共正义）的标法。
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