Shi Jianqiao / 施剑翘
Shi Jianqiao is the central figure in 41.施剑翘复仇案：超越哈贝马斯的情与法. The episode presents her as the daughter of Shi Congbin / 施从斌, who killed Sun Chuanfang / 孙传芳 in 1935 after years of planning revenge for her father’s execution and humiliation.
The source does not flatten her into either “侠女” legend or criminal defendant. It emphasizes how she turned the killing into a public event through a Buddhist venue, prepared leaflets, a “告国人书,” a will, apology to bystanders, self-surrender, interviews, and courtroom statements. Her case therefore anchors Shi Jianqiao Revenge Case, Filial Revenge Public Sympathy, Private Revenge And Modern Law, and Sensational Media Public Sphere.
The later parts of the episode follow her public identity after pardon. During the Anti-Japanese War, she used the reputation of a revenge heroine for patriotic speaking and fundraising, including a Hechuan aircraft-donation campaign with her brother. In later political periods, she rewrote her earlier vengeance through revolutionary, anti-Japanese, and patriotic language.
Key Claims
- Shi Jianqiao’s action was both personal revenge and public staging.
- Her public sympathy depended on a double image: filial daughter within traditional morality and modern woman with media literacy, mobility, and direct action.
- Her courtroom and press behavior made emotion part of legal and political argument, not merely background sentiment.
- Her later self-narration shows how a life story can be reinterpreted to fit shifting political orders.
Connections
- Shi Congbin / 施从斌 - father whose execution and humiliation motivate the revenge claim.
- Sun Chuanfang / 孙传芳 - warlord she killed.
- Shi Jianqiao Revenge Case - central event cluster.
- Filial Revenge Public Sympathy - moral mechanism that made the killing publicly sympathetic.
- Gendered Nationalist Heroism and Female Self-Possession - gendered readings of her image and agency.
- Pardon As State Power, Feng Yuxiang / 冯玉祥, Chiang Kai-shek / 蒋介石, and Nationalist Government / 国民政府 - political path to pardon and later patriotic use.