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The Killing Wind - A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Killing Wind - A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution (Hardcover)
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A spasm of extreme radicalism that rocked China to its foundations
in the mid- to late 1960s, the Cultural Revolution has generated a
vast literature. Much of it, however, is at a birds-eye level, and
we have very few detailed accounts of how it worked on the ground.
Long after the event, Tan Hecheng, now a retired Chinese writer and
editor, was sent to Daoxian, Mao's home county, to report on the
official investigation into the massacre that took place there
during the Cultural Revolution. In The Killing Wind, Tan recounts
how over the course of 66 days in 1967, over 9,000 Chinese "class
enemies" were massacred in the Daoxian, in the Hunan Province. The
killings were unprovoked and carried out with incredible,
stomach-churning brutality, which is documented here in
excruciating detail. But although this could easily be just a
compendium of horrors, it's also a meditation on memory, moral
culpability, and the failure of the Chinese government to come to
terms with the crimes of the Maoist era. Tan interweaves the story
of his research with the recollections of survivors and reflections
on the long-term consequences of the Cultural Revolution. Akin to
Jan Gross's Neighbors, about the Holocaust in a Polish town, The
Killing Wind likewise paints a single episode in extraordinary
detail in order to make a broader argument about the long term
consequences flowing from one of the twentieth century's greatest
human tragedies.
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