Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Yang Su is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. A social movement scholar, he has published work on social movements in the United States and in China. His research has appeared in flagship journals including American Sociological Review, Law and Society Review, the Journal of Asian Studies, and China Quarterly. A native of Guangdong, he holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Klappentext This book is the first to systematically document and analyze the atrocities surrounding the Cultural Revolution in China. Zusammenfassung Although it was one of the monumental events! the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most understudied political mass movements. This book will reshape the scholarship on the Cultural Revolution! both because of its stark treatment of political violence and its focus on events in the Chinese countryside. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Kill thy neighbor; 2. On the record; 3. Community and culture; 4. Class enemies; 5. Mao's ordinary men; 6. Demobilizing law; 7. Framing war; 8. Patterns of killing; 9. Understanding atrocities in plain sight.

Product details

• Authors: Yang Su, Yang (University of California Su
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521198080
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19808-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education