Abstract:

This article examines the coverage of defamation disputes and lawsuits in the Holmes tabloid in the late 1920s. In 1928, the famous poet Xu Zhimo took the tabloid to court for alleging that his wife, Lu Xiaoman, was having an affair. The tabloid strategically used the trial to validate and market newsworthy events. I argue that the tabloid publicity surrounding the defamation lawsuit embedded multifaceted meanings into a legal discourse that both facilitated legal knowledge circulation and allowed leisure consumption. Modern legal knowledge was thus combined with scandalous narrative to create a new and distinctive type of public knowledge. This playful engagement in the making of legal knowledge enhanced vernacular legal understanding but challenged the legal professionals by turning a procedure of law into a mechanism of gossip production for profit.

摘要：

本文探讨了有关福尔摩斯诽谤纠纷和诉讼的内容小报在1920年代后期。1928年，著名诗人徐志摩因指控其妻子卢小曼有外遇而将这家小报告上法庭。小报策略性地使用该试验来验证和推销具有新闻价值的事件。我认为，围绕诽谤诉讼的小报宣传在法律话语中嵌入了多方面的含义，既促进了法律知识的流通又允许了休闲消费。因此，现代法律知识与丑闻叙事相结合，创造了一种新颖而独特的公共知识。这种对法律知识的创造的积极参与增强了白话法律的理解，但通过将法律程序转变为八卦生产牟利的机制，对法律专业人士提出了挑战。