TY  - BOOK
AU  - Su,Yang
TI  - Collective killings in rural China during the cultural revolution
T2  - Cambridge studies in contentious politics
SN  - 9780521198080 (hardback)
AV  - DS778.7 .S817 2011
U1  - 951.05/6 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Genocide
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-289) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
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