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October 14, 1936, Nationalist government granted amnesty to Shi Jianqiao, a crime committed suicide to revenge Sun Chuanfang for her father's death. Should this kind of deeds be treated as a filial behavior, or an unlawful violence? Such issue had been discussed in China for over thousand years. However, the public opinions of the new society in the 20th century gave this ancient issues some new meanings. For details, you may refer to a published research results out of our international conference: Eugenia Lean, "Public Virtue or Private Revenge: the National Politics of "Emotion" in 1930s China".
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