Su, Yang creator text bibliography nyu New York Cambridge University Press 2011 monographic eng

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300 p. : ill. "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. 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 Yang Su. YT2025 M08 Genocide China History 20th century China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 DS778.7 S817 C 2011 9780521198080 0521198089 9780521173810 0521173817 SDU 101028