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Collective killings in rural China during the cultural revolution /

"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 system...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Su, Yang, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.
ISBN:9781139042192
113904219X
9780511762574
0511762577
9781139044820
1139044826