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Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman : Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China / Brian DeMare.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeMare, Brian James, author.
- Series:
- Stanford scholarship online.
- Stanford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counterrevolutionaries--China--Boyang Xian--History.
- Counterrevolutionaries.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--China--Boyang Xian--History.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses).
- Poyang Xian (China)--History--20th century.
- Poyang Xian (China).
- China--History--1949-1976.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 186 pages) : maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Drawn from rarely seen archival sources, four stories of criminal counterrevolution that trace the arrival of Communist power in the Chinese countryside.
- Contents:
- A few words before we begin
- Timeline of events
- The setting : the county by the lake
- Casefile one : bandits, big swords, and the rebel scholar
- Casefile two : Big Tiger, tyrant of the mountain
- Casefile three : the case of the Bodhisattva Society
- Casefile four : Merchant Zha goes to court
- A few more words in closing.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781503632516
- 1503632512
- OCLC:
- 1285370642
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