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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Su, Yang, 1964- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in contentious politics.

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Genocide.

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

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Kill thy neighbor

On the record

Community and culture

Class enemies

Mao's ordinary men

Demobilizing law

Framing war

Patterns of killing

Understanding atrocities in plain sight.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21503-X

1-139-03596-7

1-283-05392-6

9786613053923

0-511-76257-7

1-139-04142-8

1-139-04219-X

1-139-04482-6

1-139-03828-1

1-139-04065-0

OCLC:

710974890