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Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution : a Case Study of Two Deaths by the Red Guards /

This book recounts two deaths, the murder of Mr. Wang Jin by 31 Red Guards in the Nanjing Foreign Language School, where the senior author was a young student at the time; and the earlier murder of Mrs. Bian Zhongyun of the Girls School affiliated with the Beijing Normal University in 1966. The book...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Zhang, Joshua (Author), Wright, James D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 16.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. TWO IMPORTANT INCIDENTS IN THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
  • 1. A Concise History of the Cultural Revolution
  • 2. A General Account of the Wang Jin Incident
  • 3. The Aftermath of the Wang Jin Incident
  • 4. The Bian Zhongyun Incident
  • 5. The Controversy over the Bian Zhongyun Incident
  • 6. A Comparison between the Wang and Bian Incidents.
  • PART 2. VIOLENCE AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
  • 7. A Review of Research on Violence in the Cultural Revolution
  • 8. The Red Guards and Students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School
  • 9. Conformity and Obedience to Authority
  • 10. The Cultural Revolution as a Real-life Version of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
  • PART 3. PERIODIZATION AND DEFINITION OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
  • 11. Different Versions of the Cultural Revolution Periodization and Definition
  • 12. Was the Cultural Revolution Cultural? Was it a Revolution?
  • 13. Statistical Models for Analysis
  • 14. The Implications of the Analytic Models
  • 15. Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution
  • 16. Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. The Original Report of the Wang Jin Investigation (1967)
  • Appendix B. More Details from the Original Investigation Report (1967).