Collective killings in rural China during the Cultural Revolution [electronic resource] / Yang Su.
2011
DS778.7 .S817 2011
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Title
Collective killings in rural China during the Cultural Revolution [electronic resource] / Yang Su.
Author
Su, Yang, 1964-
ISBN
9780521198080
9780521173810
9781139044820 (electronic book)
9780521173810
9781139044820 (electronic book)
Publication Details
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xix, 300 p. : ill., map.
Call Number
DS778.7 .S817 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
951.05/6
Summary
"The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically document and analyze these atrocities, drawing data from local archives, government documents, and interviews with survivors in two southern provinces. This book extracts from the Chinese case lessons that challenge the prevailing models of genocide and mass killings and contributes to the historiography of the Cultural Revolution, in which scholarship has mainly focused on events in urban areas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Kill thy neighbor; 2. On the record; 3. Community and culture; 4. Class enemies; 5. Mao's ordinary men; 6. Demobilizing law; 7. Framing war; 8. Patterns of killing; 9. Understanding atrocities in plain sight.