Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution
Title | Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Yang Su |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011-02-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139492462 |
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.
The Killing Wind
Title | The Killing Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Hecheng Tan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 537 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190622520 |
In The Killing Wind, Tan recounts how over the course of 66 days in 1967, over 9,000 Chinese "class enemies" were massacred in the Daoxian.
Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution
Title | Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Yang Lijun |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 473 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9819709067 |
The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History
Title | The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph W. Esherick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9780804767989 |
Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential "revolutionary" leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.
A Social History of Maoist China
Title | A Social History of Maoist China PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Wemheuer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2019-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107123704 |
This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution
Title | Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Yang Lijun |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-08-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789819709052 |
This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that had a major impact on the political, economic, and social order of the time.
Deadly Decision in Beijing
Title | Deadly Decision in Beijing PDF eBook |
Author | Yang Su |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2023-02-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009100769 |
In this play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen protests, Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against a revolutionary mobilization.