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• W2605302538 abstract "(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)Eugenia Lean, Public Passions. The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, 290 pp.On 13 November 1935, a young woman slipped into a Buddhist temple in Tianjin and fired several shots at a peaceable 50year-old man kneeling in front of the altar. Turning towards the witnesses who were beginning to run away, the young woman threw down her weapon and began to explain her act aloud, while distributing a mimeographed document. Her name was Shi Jianqiao, the daughter of Shi Congbin, who ten years earlier had been the officer commanding the units in Shandong on behalf of the Zhili clique led by the warlord Zhang Zuolin. In October 1925, during the second war between the Zhili and Fengtian cliques, Shi Congbin had been captured by Sun Chuanfang, one of the leaders of the Fengtian clique, who had had him summarily decapitated and his head mounted on a pike. It was this Sun Chuanfang, now retired and a convert to Buddhism, whom Shi Jianqiao had just assassinated, thus exacting vengeance for her father's death and the profanation of his remains.This news story immediately received considerable coverage, both because of the personality of the victim - Sun Chuanfang embodied the worst outrages of the warlords: fierce repression of workers' strikes in Shanghai, opium trafficking, collaboration with the Japanese - and the motive for the murder: avenging one's father was a crime in the eyes of the law, but a duty according to Confucian morality. This dilemma inflamed public opinion, and articles in the press were soon supplemented by serial novels, plays, and even a film, all during the proceedings of a court case full of sudden new developments, with the Tianjin District Court, the Hebei Provincial Court, and the Supreme Court in Nanking each handing down contradictory verdicts.In the end, Shi Jianqiao was given a pardon and set free. Her act had made her a heroine of filial piety, and Nationalist propaganda made her into a symbol of the Patriotic War, representing legitimate vengeance against the Japanese aggressor. The final chapter of the book follows the heroine's destiny in Communist China, the difficulties she experienced when the Cultural Revolution made filial piety a defect of feudal society, and her rehabilitation in 1979, shortly before her death.This is a dense book in which the wealth of documentation and the range of points of view get the better of rigorous analysis. The initial chapters are devoted to introducing the victim, the murderer, and her motive, and then to an overview of the press. It is here that the dominant theme of the book appears: Media Sensation: Public Justice and the Sympathy of an Urban Audience (the title of Chapter 2) - how a newly urbanised audience supported a character draped in the chivalrous virtues of the wuxia, those righters of wrongs in Chinese popular novels. The case gives rise to a confrontation between a feeling of sympathy for the murderess, qing reason, //; and the law fa, with the first generally getting the better of the other two, according to the author's analysis of the court case. Shi Jianqiao was defended by two ace who made two primary submissions on her behalf: on the one hand, Shi had immediately surrendered to the authorities, zishou, an important notion in old law, which the author believes led automatically to a pardon, when in fact it was never more than a mitigating circumstance. On the other hand, the lawyers pleaded rightful anger in the face of the unjust and barbarous act of which the accused's father had been the victim, in a situation - the chaos of civil war - in which she could not obtain justice by any other means. …" @default.
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