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Author | : Yang Su |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-02-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139492462 |
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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.
Author | : Joseph W. Esherick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9780804767989 |
Download The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential "revolutionary" leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.
Author | : Hecheng Tan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190622520 |
Download The Killing Wind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4.000 'class enemies' were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9.000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional conflict that rocked China during the Cultural Revolution. Years after the massacre, journalist Tan Hecheng was sent to Daoxian to report on an official investigation into the killings
Author | : Felix Wemheuer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107123704 |
Download A Social History of Maoist China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Author | : Frank Dikötter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080277928X |
Download Mao's Great Famine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Author | : Ching Kwan Lee |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804758536 |
Download Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China's revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. This volume examines the memories of a range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship.
Author | : Yang Su |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009100769 |
Download Deadly Decision in Beijing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen protests, Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against a revolutionary mobilization.
Author | : Yang Lijun |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9819709067 |
Download Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Roderick MACFARQUHAR |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674040414 |
Download Mao's Last Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.
Author | : Melvyn C. Goldstein |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520267907 |
Download On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This resource revisits the Nyemo incident, which has long been romanticised as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. The authors show that far from being a spontaneous battle for independence, this event was actually part of a struggle between rival revolutionary groups and was not ethnically based.