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How can a dictatorship cope with the legacy of atrocities committed in its own name? This cutting-edge volume addresses the question of historical justice in post-Mao China through issues of property, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and memory. It provides a fresh perspective on Chinese history and politics, socialisms and transitional justice.
List of contents
Introduction Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman; Part I. Property: 1. Between revolution and law: Merchant families' struggles for property rights and justice under Mao and Deng, 1949-1984 Zhaojin Zeng; 2. What right to property when rebellion is justified? Revolution and restitution in Shanghai Puck Engman; 3. The pursuit of transitional justice from below: A case study from Shanghai Qin Shao; Part II. The Mechanics of Rehabilitation: 4. Dealing with victims of the Cultural Revolution: The case of the Guangxi killings, 1983-1987 Guoqing Song; 5. Villagers, cadres, and the politics of rehabilitation in post-Mao China, 1979-1982 Long Yang; Part III. The Politics of Truth: 6. Local reassessment versus central prestige: Tao Zhu, land reform, and the Pine Hill incident Mark Czeller; 7. New verdicts on the printed page: Expurgating the ,Gang of Four, in the publishing industry, 1976-1978 Matthew Wills; Part IV. Memory: 8. Narratives and voices of Cultural Revolution ,perpetrators, Man Zhang; 9. Coping with a traumatic past: Wang Bing's documentaries He Fengming and Dead Souls Flora Lichaa; 10. From individual guilt to public remorse: The ,Confessions, (Chanhuilu) column in the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu Sebastian Veg; Afterword: The Chinese Communist Party's politics of historical justice in perspective Daniel Leese.
