01752cam a22002774a 4500 101028s2011 nyuab b 001 0 eng 9780521198080 0521198089 9780521173810 0521173817 SDU DS778.7 S817 C 2011 Su, Yang, 200710 Collective killings in rural China during the cultural revolution / Yang Su. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 300 p. : ill. Cambridge studies in contentious politics Kill thy neighbor -- On the record -- Community and culture -- Class enemies -- Mao's ordinary men -- Demobilizing law -- Framing war -- Patterns of killing -- Understanding atrocities in plain sight. HKBU library YT2025 M08 "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. Genocide China History 20th century. 200711 China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 105953 105953 0 0 lcc 0 DS07787 S817 C2011 0 CGB 278529 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-20 2 0 DS778.7 S817 C 2011 1000369725 2025-08-20 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-20 GBE