Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution : a Case Study of Two Deaths by the Red Guards

Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution : a Case Study of Two Deaths by the Red Guards / by Joshua Zhang, James D. Wright.

This book recounts two deaths, the murder of Mr. Wang Jin by 31 Red Guards in the Nanjing Foreign Language School, where the senior author was a young student at the time; and the earlier murder of Mrs. Bian Zhongyun of the Girls School affiliated with the Beijing Normal University in 1966. The book...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Joshua (Author), Wright, James D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 16.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Political violence > China > History > 20th century.
Political violence > China > Case studies.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Political violence
Politics and government
China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China > Politics and government > 1949-1976.
China
Electronic books.
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. TWO IMPORTANT INCIDENTS IN THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
  • 1. A Concise History of the Cultural Revolution
  • 2. A General Account of the Wang Jin Incident
  • 3. The Aftermath of the Wang Jin Incident
  • 4. The Bian Zhongyun Incident
  • 5. The Controversy over the Bian Zhongyun Incident
  • 6. A Comparison between the Wang and Bian Incidents.
  • PART 2. VIOLENCE AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
  • 7. A Review of Research on Violence in the Cultural Revolution
  • 8. The Red Guards and Students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School
  • 9. Conformity and Obedience to Authority
  • 10. The Cultural Revolution as a Real-life Version of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
  • PART 3. PERIODIZATION AND DEFINITION OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
  • 11. Different Versions of the Cultural Revolution Periodization and Definition
  • 12. Was the Cultural Revolution Cultural? Was it a Revolution?
  • 13. Statistical Models for Analysis
  • 14. The Implications of the Analytic Models
  • 15. Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution
  • 16. Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. The Original Report of the Wang Jin Investigation (1967)
  • Appendix B. More Details from the Original Investigation Report (1967).

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