The Killing Wind

A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution

Tan Heçheng (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

534 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-062252-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Tan Hecheng is a retired author and editor for the Chinese government.

Map
Blood Awakening
Deconstructing the Mythos of Mao Zedong's Peasant Revolution
Translator's Note
Chronology of the Cultural Revolution Killings in Daoxian

Introduction

Part One: The Origin of the Massacre
Chapter 1: The River of Death
Chapter 2: My Destiny with Daoxian
Chapter 3: Daoxian on the Eve of the Massacre
Chapter 4: The Random Killings Begin

Part Two: Assembling the Machinery of Slaughter
Chapter 5: The Killing Wind Spreads through Administrative Lines
Chapter 6: Qingtang District and the Rise of the Peasant Supreme Courts
Chapter 7: The Red Alliance Role in the Killing Wind

Part Three: Chetou and Shangguan Districts - Murder as Spectacle
Chapter 8: Chetou District's Model Killings
Chapter 9: Shangguan District - In the Eye of the Storm
Chapter 10: Other Communes in Shangguan District

Part Four: Gongba District, the County's Top Killer
Chapter 11: A Dubious Honor
Chapter 12: The Killings at Daoxian's Deadliest Commune
Chapter 13: Some Who Got Away
Chapter 14: Death before Marriage
Chapter 15: High-level Participation in Qingxi District
Chapter 16: When the Pebble Rises from the Water

Part Six: Xianglinpu District's Militia Push
Chapter 17: The Shangdu Militia Headquarters
Chapter 18: Even Heaven Wept
Chapter 19: Two Classic Cases
Chapter 20: The Banality of Evil

Part Seven: Deadly Politics
Chapter 21: A Little Education Is a Dangerous Thing
Chapter 22: The Price of Truth
Chapter 23: The Scapegoated Landlord Class

Part Eight: The Killers
Chapter 24: Beyond the Pale
Chapter 25: Brainwashed

Part Nine: The Outliers
Chapter 26: The Anomalous Xianzijiao District
Chapter 27: The Zhenggangtou Phenomenon
Chapter 28: The Miracle of Life
Chapter 29: The Story of an Execution Ground Survivor

Part Ten: The Crackdown
Chapter 30: The 6950 Unit Arrives in Daoxian
Chapter 31: No Regrets
Chapter 32: The Petitioners
Chapter 33: Change of Plans
Chapter 34: Killings in the Counties and Cities Surrounding Daoxian

Part Eleven: The End of the Killing Wind
Chapter 35: Huang Yida and the Fall of the Red Alliance
Chapter 36: Reversals

Afterword: Living for Truth

Appendix I: Basic Statistics on the Victims of the Daoxian Cultural Revolution Killings
Appendix II: Official Culpability in Daoxian's Killing Wind

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Übersetzer	Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 236 mm
Gewicht	839 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-062252-0 / 0190622520
ISBN-13	978-0-19-062252-7 / 9780190622527
Zustand	Neuware