The killing wind : a Chinese county's descent into madness during the cultural revolution / by Tan H...
The killing wind : a Chinese county's descent into madness during the cultural revolution / by Tan H...
The killing wind : a Chinese county's descent into madness during the cultural revolution / by Tan Hecheng ; translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
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[Oxford], UK New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/1438
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English
Chinese
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxviii, 505pages : maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The Origin of the Massacre. The River of Death ; My Destiny with Daoxian ; Daoxian on the Eve of the Massacre (The August 5 county seize-and-push meeting ; The August 8 gun-snatching incident) ; The Random Killings Begin (First blood at the Xiaba production brigade ; Xique Zhengjia sparks off the ma...
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Publisher
[Oxford], UK New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 'class enemies'--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts o...
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The killing wind : a Chinese county's descent into madness during the cultural revolution / by Tan Hecheng ; translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
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Chinese county's descent into madness during the cultural revolution
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-487) and index.
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Translated from the Chinese.
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Online version: Tan, Hecheng, 1949- author. Killing wind New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] 9780190622534 (DLC) 2016031266
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G 2017/1438
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74VKVVxRwqXl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVVxRwqXl
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ISBN
0190622520 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780190622527 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
951.215
MMS ID
991024098222302626
