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1 online resource (537 pages) |
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Cover; Half_Title; The Killing Wind; Copyright; Contents; Map-Daoxian at the Time of the Task Force Investigation; Foreword: Blood Awakening; Preface: Deconstructing the Mythos of Mao Zedong's Peasant Revolution; Translator's Note; Chronology of the Cultural Revolution Killings in Daoxian; Introduction; Part One The Origin of the Massacre; 1. The River of Death; 2. My Destiny with Daoxian; 3. Daoxian on the Eve of the Massacre; The August 5 county seize-and-push meeting; The August 8 gun-snatching incident; 4. The Random Killings Begin; First blood at the Xiaba production brigade |
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Xique Zhengjia sparks off the massacrePart Two Assembling the Machinery of Slaughter; 5. The Killing Wind Spreads through Administrative Lines; 6. Qingtang District and the Rise of the Peasant Supreme Courts; In the hometown of the philosopher; The rise of the peasant supreme courts; A commune Communist Party secretary's story; 7. The Red Alliance Role in the Killing Wind; Establishment of the Yingjiang Frontline Command Post; The August 21 Yingjiang reporting meeting; The Yingjiang Political and Legal Work Conference; Part Three Chetou and Shangguan Districts-Murder as Spectacle |
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8. Chetou District's Model KillingsThe real story of Chetou District's "landlord and rich-peasant insurrection"; Blood-soaked Meihua; An advanced commune encounters a new challenge; 9. Shangguan District-in the Eye of the Storm; Shangguan Commune's on-the-spot killing rallies; Killing turncoats as well as landlords; 10. Other Communes in Shangguan District; Dongmen Commune: Graffiti on a cottage wall; The killings at Wanjiazhuang Commune; The unbearable lightness of Futang Commune; Part Four Gongba District, the County's Top Killer; 11. A Dubious Honor; One day in Yanhetang |
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12. The Killings at Daoxian's Deadliest CommuneInterview with the Butcher of Gongba Commune; 13. Some Who Got Away; 14. Death before Marriage; Part Five Qingxi District's PAFD Commander; 15. High-Level Participation in Qingxi District; The Great Leap brigade's killing sputnik; Killings approved by the county organization department head; 16. When the Pebble Rises from the Water; Part Six Xianglinpu District's Militia Push; 17. The Shangdu Militia Headquarters; The pressure to stay in the lead; 18. Even Heaven Wept; 19. Two Classic Cases; 20. The Banality of Evil |
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"The tough job is left to me"A brigade secretary's story; Whatever the Communist Party says; Part Seven Deadly Politics; 21. A Little Education Is a Dangerous Thing; The legend of Widow's Bridge; If you loved the Communist Party, would the party kill you?; 22. The Price of Truth; The destruction of two Rightist families; Death of a "little Peng Dehuai"; 23. The Scapegoated Landlord Class; Part Eight The Killers; 24. Beyond the Pale; The "big rice pot"; Between humans and beasts; 25. Brainwashed; The Communist Party secretary who killed a poor-peasant association chairman; Duty before family |
| Summary |
In The Killing Wind, Tan recounts how over the course of 66 days in 1967, over 9,000 Chinese ""class enemies"" were massacred in the Daoxian |
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The Iron Maiden of Daoxian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Political violence -- China -- Dao Xian -- History
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Political violence
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126
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Dao Xian (China) -- History -- 20th century
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China
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China -- Dao Xian
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mosher, Stacy
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Jian, Guo
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| ISBN |
9780190622534 |
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0190622539 |
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