Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution
A Case Study of Two Deaths by the Red Guards
Published on 11. January 2018
Book
Hardback
294 pages
978-90-04-36046-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 is a history of two small incidents in a massive social injustice and also an attempt to understand the Cultural Revolution (CR) within the framework of modern social movement theory. The book elaborates on the sources of violence in the CR, and the definition and periodization of the CR (that is, what was it, and when did it begin and end?).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36046-4 (9789004360464)
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Persons
Joshua Zhang, Ph.D. (1996), Tulane University, is a researcher at the Texas Attorney General's Office. He has published monographs, book chapters and papers, including Neither One Cultural Revolution, Nor Two Cultural Revolutions (2015).
James D. Wright, Ph.D. (1973), University of Wisconsin, is the Pegasus Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. He has authored or co-authored 27 research monographs and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters and essays.
James D. Wright, Ph.D. (1973), University of Wisconsin, is the Pegasus Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. He has authored or co-authored 27 research monographs and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters and essays.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Important Individuals
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
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)
References
Index
List of Important Individuals
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
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)
References
Index