Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy - Couverture rigide

Wang, Youqin

 
9780861542239: Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0861542231 ISBN 13 : 9780861542239
Editeur : Oneworld Academic, 2023

Synopsis

The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.

Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why.

Over eleven years in Mao's China, an all-out assault on 'class enemies' took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers' skulls. Doctors were tortured in jail as foreign spies. Ordinary people condemned 'counter-revolutionaries' to execution - and then went home and ate their dinner.

This was less than fifty years ago. But the victims are being forgotten already. Wang Youqin unmasks the true brutality of the Cultural Revolution. Documenting the deaths of over six hundred individuals, Victims of the Cultural Revolution calls on us to remember the evil ideological fanaticism wreaks and pays tribute to all those who suffered.

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À propos de l?auteur

Wang Youqin is a Senior Instructional Professor in Chinese language at the University of Chicago. She has been researching the Cultural Revolution since 2004 and maintains a memorial website for its victims.

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Éditeur
Oneworld Academic
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0861542231
ISBN 13 
9780861542239
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
592
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Personne responsable
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