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.

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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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Superior document:Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume 16
VerfasserIn:
Zhang, Joshua,
Wright, James D.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Wright, James D.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; Volume 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource (293 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
Notes:"List of Important Individuals"-- page viii.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Important Individuals
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Two Important Incidents in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • A Concise History of the Cultural Revolution
  • A General Account of the Wang Jin Incident
  • The Aftermath of the Wang Jin Incident
  • The Bian Zhongyun Incident*
  • The Controversy over the Bian Zhongyun Incident
  • A Comparison between the Wang and Bian Incidents
  • Violence and the Cultural Revolution
  • A Review of Research on Violence in the Cultural Revolution
  • The Red Guards and Students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School
  • Conformity and Obedience to Authority
  • The Cultural Revolution as a Real-life Version of the Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution
  • Different Versions of the Cultural Revolution Periodization and Definition
  • Was the Cultural Revolution Cultural? Was it a Revolution?
  • Statistical Models for Analysis
  • The Implications of the Analytic Models
  • Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution
  • Conclusion.

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