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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819260803321

Autore

Su Yang <1964->

Titolo

Collective killings in rural China during the cultural revolution / / Yang Su [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

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

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Classificazione

POL000000

Disciplina

951.05/6

Soggetti

Genocide - China - History - 20th century

China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.