Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution

Although it was one of the monumental events in the world's communist history, the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most understudied political mass movements. This book will reshape the scholarship on the Cultural Revolution, both because of its stark treatment of political violence and its focus on events in the Chinese countryside. Past models of mass killings conceptualize them as an outcome of state policies. But as the case in rural China demonstrates, genocide depends on...
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Although it was one of the monumental events in the world's communist history, the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most understudied political mass movements. This book will reshape the scholarship on the Cultural Revolution, both because of its stark treatment of political violence and its focus on events in the Chinese countryside. Past models of mass killings conceptualize them as an outcome of state policies. But as the case in rural China demonstrates, genocide depends on the dynamics of local communities.