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 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. 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Yang Su, Yang (University of California Su, Su Yang
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 21.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521173810
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17381-0
• Pages: 322
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Comparative Politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Asian History, Genocide and ethnic cleansing