A01=Yi Zheng
Author_Yi Zheng
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cannibalism in Chinese political movements
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CCP Member
CCP Membership
Central Cultural Revolution Group
Chinese Communist Party
committee
County Revolutionary Committee
Cultural Revolution violence
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factional conflict studies
guangxi
Guangxi Autonomous Region
historical trauma analysis
Jiu Tang Shu
Leftover Cases
Lin Biao
Liu Bei
lower
Lower Middle Peasants
Mao Zedong
middle
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
party
Party Discipline Inspection Commission
peasants
People's Literature Publishing House
PLA Unit
political anthropology
Qian River
region
revolutionary
Revolutionary Committee
secretary
Special Investigation Group
state-sanctioned atrocities
T. P. Sym
Time To Say Good Bye
Wei Guoqing
Young Man
Zhang Bin
Zhang Zhixin
Zheng Yi
Zhongshan County
Zhuang ethnic history
Product details
- ISBN 9780367320164
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives of the Chinese Communist Party and on extensive interviews with party officials, the victims' relatives, and the murderers themselves, Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and class struggle."The treasure-trove of evidence Zheng Yi has unearthed offers unprecedented insights into the way the internecine, factional struggles of the Cultural Revolution reached a horrifying level of insanity and frenzy among the ethnic Zhuang people of Guangxi. Profoundly moving, acutely observed, and unflinchingly graphic, Scarlet Memorial is a shining example of a genre of investigative reporting that courageously and independently records obscure and officially censored historical events, revealing hidden dimensions of modern Chinese history and politics.
Zheng Yi (which means justice) is one of China's foremost novelists and journalists. His works include Old Well, which was later made into an acclaimed film. A leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, he spent over three years as a fugitive from the Chinese government before escaping to Hong Kong. He now lives in the United States.
