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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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....