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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.
Genocide --- S06/0435 --- S11/0534 --- S11/0816 --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- History --- China: Politics and government--Cultural Revolution --- China: Social sciences--Class studies --- China: Social sciences--Criminality --- China --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family-"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese-reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.
Ye family. --- China --- History. --- 14th century. --- 19th century. --- ancestors. --- asian biography. --- biographical. --- china. --- chinese communists. --- chinese history. --- chinese rebellions. --- chinese. --- cultural revolution. --- economic growth. --- everyday life. --- family history. --- family lines. --- historical nonfiction. --- history buffs. --- japanese invasion. --- modern china. --- modern history. --- nonfiction. --- oral histories. --- personal history. --- republican era. --- social history. --- social transformation. --- war and revolution. --- warfare. --- world war ii. --- wwii. --- ye family.
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