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Trans. by Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional conflict that rocked China during the Cultural Revolution. However, in spite of the scope and brutality of the killings, there are few detailed accounts of mass killings in China's countryside during the Cultural Revolution's most tumultuous years. Years after the massacre, journalist Tan Hecheng was sent to Daoxian to report on an official investigation into the killings. Tan was prevented from publishing his findings in China, but in 2010, he published the Chinese edition of __The Killing Wind__ in Hong Kong. Tan's first-hand investigation of the atrocities, accumulated over the course of more than 20 years, blends his research with the recollections of survivors to provide a vivid account exploring how and why the massacre took place and describing its af

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Author

Tan Hecheng, Guo Jian, Stacy Mosher

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190622541

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.33 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14