Collective killings in rural China during the cultural revolution / Yang Su.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Su, Yang, 1964-

Series:

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

History.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

China.

Genocide--China--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780521198080

0521198089

9780521173810

0521173817

OCLC:

681739173

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