Tan Hecheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian

The Killing Wind

A Chinese County's Descent Into Madness During the Cultural Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9780190622527
• ISBN-10: 0190622520
• Artikelnr.: 47869789

Autorenporträt

Tan Hecheng is a retired author and editor for the Chinese government.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Map
* Blood Awakening
* 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
* Chapter 1: The River of Death
* Chapter 2: My Destiny with Daoxian
* Chapter 3: Daoxian on the Eve of the Massacre
* The August 5 county seize-and-push meeting
* The August 8 gun-snatching incident
* Chapter 4: The Random Killings Begin
* First blood at the Xiaba production brigade
* Xique Zhengjia sparks off the massacre
* Part Two: Assembling the Machinery of Slaughter
* Chapter 5: The Killing Wind Spreads through Administrative Lines
* Chapter 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 Party secretary's story
* Chapter 7: The Red Alliance Role in the Killing Wind
* Establishment of the Yingjiang Frontline Command Post
* The Yingjiang Political and Legal Work Conference
* Part Three: Chetou and Shangguan Districts - Murder as Spectacle
* Chapter 8: Chetou District's Model Killings
* The real story of Chetou District's "landlord and rich peasant
insurrection"
* Blood-soaked Meihua
* An advanced commune encounters a new challenge
* Chapter 9: Shangguan District - In the Eye of the Storm
* Shangguan Commune's on-the-spot killing rallies
* Killing turncoats as well as landlords
* Chapter 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
* Chapter 11: A Dubious Honor
* One day in Yanhetang
* Chapter 12: The Killings at Daoxian's Deadliest Commune
* Chapter 13: Some Who Got Away
* Chapter 14: Death before Marriage
* Part Five: Qingxi District's PAFD Commander
* Chapter 15: High-level Participation in Qingxi District
* The Great Leap brigade's killing sputnik
* Killings approved by the county organization department head
* Chapter 16: When the Pebble Rises from the Water
* Part Six: Xianglinpu District's Militia Push
* Chapter 17: The Shangdu Militia Headquarters
* The pressure to stay in the lead
* Chapter 18: Even Heaven Wept
* Chapter 19: Two Classic Cases
* Chapter 20: The Banality of Evil
* "The tough job is left to me"
* A brigade secretary's story
* Part Seven: Deadly Politics
* Chapter 21: A Little Education Is a Dangerous Thing
* The legend of Widow's Bridge
* If you loved the Party, would the Party kill you?
* Chapter 22: The Price of Truth
* The destruction of two Rightist families
* Death of a "little Peng Dehua"
* Chapter 23: The Scapegoated Landlord Class
* Part Eight: The Killers
* Chapter 24: Beyond the Pale
* The "big rice pot"
* Between humans and beasts
* Chapter 25: Brainwashed
* The Party secretary who killed a poor peasant association chairman
* Duty before family
* The Iron Maiden of Daoxian
* Part Nine: The Outliers
* Chapter 26: The Anomalous Xianzijiao District
* Qiaotou Commune's mass killing rally
* The last victim
* Chapter 27: The Zhenggangtou Phenomenon
* Chapter 28: The Miracle of Life
* Chapter 29: The Story of an Execution Ground Survivor
* Part Ten: The Crackdown
* Chapter 30: The 6950 Unit Arrives in Daoxian
* The hard task of halting the killing
* Chapter 31: No Regrets
* An interview with Revolutionary Alliance leader Liu Xiangxi
* An interview with Red Alliance leader He Xia
* Chapter 32: The Petitioners
* Master petitioner Li Niande
* A mansion and a family's fate
* Rise of a master petitioner
* Chapter 33: Change of Plans
* A drinking mishap
* Chapter 34: Killings in the Counties and Cities Surrounding Daoxian
* Part Eleven: The End of the Killing Wind
* Chapter 35: Huang Yida and the Fall of the Red Alliance
* Midnight run to the provincial capital
* Hua Guofeng's directive
* The September 23 tragedy
* The exposure study sessions
* Chapter 36: Reversals
* In prison
* Heaven's unfathomable will
* Afterword: Living for Truth
* Appendix I: Basic Statistics on the Victims of the Daoxian Cultural
Revolution Killings
* Appendix II: Official Culpability in Daoxian's Killing Wind