Violence, Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution: A Case Study of Two Deaths by the Red Guards

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This book relates two incidents in a massive social injustice and attempts to understand the Cultural Revolution within the framework of modern social movement theory: sources of violence, what was it and when did it begin and end? Contents Acknowledgements List of Important Individuals List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Two Important Incidents in the Chinese Cultural Revolution Chapter 1 A Concise History of the Cultural Revolution Chapter 2 A General Account of the Wang Jin Incident Chapter 3 The Aftermath of the Wang Jin Incident Chapter 4 The Bian Zhongyun Incident Chapter 5 The Controversy over the Bian Zhongyun Incident Chapter 6 A Comparison between the Wang and Bian Incidents Part 2 Violence and the Cultural Revolution Chapter 7 A Review of Research on Violence in the Cultural Revolution Chapter 8 The Red Guards and Students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School Chapter 9 Conformity and Obedience to Authority Chapter 10 The Cultural Revolution as a Real-life Version of the Stanford Prison Experiment Part 3 Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution Chapter 11 Different Versions of the Cultural Revolution Periodization and Definition Chapter 12 Was the Cultural Revolution Cultural? Was it a Revolution? Chapter 13 Statistical Models for Analysis Chapter 14 The Implications of the Analytic Models Chapter 15 Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution Chapter 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