
Podcast 07|The Republican-Era Swordswoman and the Clash of Rites and Law: Shi Jianqiao's Assassination of Sun Chuanfang
In 1935, Shi Jianqiao shot Sun Chuanfang in a Buddhist hall in Tianjin to avenge her father, then scattered leaflets and surrendered. From her decade-long pursuit of revenge through three levels of Republican courts and a Nationalist pardon, this episode asks how traditional filial duty fared under modern criminal law.



