Violence, periodization and definition of the cultural revolution : a case study of two deaths by the Red Guards / by Joshua Zhang, James D. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Joshua, author.

Wright, James D., author.

Series:

Ideas, history, and modern China ; Volume 16.

Ideas, History, and Modern China, 1875-9394 ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

This book recounts two deaths, the murder of Mr. Wang Jin by 31 Red Guards in the Nanjing Foreign Language School, where the senior author was a young student at the time; and the earlier murder of Mrs. Bian Zhongyun of the Girls School affiliated with the Beijing Normal University in 1966. The book is a history of two small incidents in a massive social injustice and also an attempt to understand the Cultural Revolution (CR) within the framework of modern social movement theory. The book elaborates on the sources of violence in the CR, and the definition and periodization of the CR (that is, what was it, and when did it begin and end?).

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

List of Important Individuals

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Two Important Incidents in the Chinese Cultural Revolution

A Concise History of the Cultural Revolution

A General Account of the Wang Jin Incident

The Aftermath of the Wang Jin Incident

The Bian Zhongyun Incident*

The Controversy over the Bian Zhongyun Incident

A Comparison between the Wang and Bian Incidents

Violence and the Cultural Revolution

A Review of Research on Violence in the Cultural Revolution

The Red Guards and Students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School

Conformity and Obedience to Authority

The Cultural Revolution as a Real-life Version of the Stanford Prison Experiment

Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution

Different Versions of the Cultural Revolution Periodization and Definition

Was the Cultural Revolution Cultural? Was it a Revolution?

Statistical Models for Analysis

The Implications of the Analytic Models

Conclusion.

Notes:

"List of Important Individuals"-- page viii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 3, 2018).

ISBN:

90-04-36047-6

OCLC:

1022846231

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004360471 DOI