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

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 5 Acknowledgements 7 List of Important Individuals 8 List of Illustrations 12 List of Abbreviations 13 Introduction 15 Part 1 Two Important Incidents in the Chinese Cultural Revolution 21 Chapter 1 A Concise History of the Cultural Revolution 23 Chapter 2 A General Account of the Wang Jin Incident 32 Chapter 3 The Aftermath of the Wang Jin Incident 47 Chapter 4 The Bian Zhongyun Incident 54 Chapter 5 The Controversy over the Bian Zhongyun Incident 63 Chapter 6 A Comparison between the Wang and Bian Incidents 89 Part 2 Violence and the Cultural Revolution 99 Chapter 7 A Review of Research on Violence in the Cultural Revolution 101 Chapter 8 The Red Guards and Students of the Nanjing Foreign Language School 106 Chapter 9 Conformity and Obedience to Authority 114 Chapter 10 The Cultural Revolution as a Real-life Version of the Stanford Prison Experiment 122 Part 3 Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution 139 Chapter 11 Different Versions of the Cultural Revolution Periodization and Definition 141 Chapter 12 Was the Cultural Revolution Cultural? Was it a Revolution? 153 Chapter 13 Statistical Models for Analysis 158 Chapter 14 The Implications of the Analytic Models 176 Chapter 15 Periodization and Definition of the Cultural Revolution 197 Chapter 16 Conclusion 207 Appendices 211 Appendix A: The Original Report of the Wang Jin Investigation (1967) 213 Appendix B: More Details from the Original Investigation Report (1967) 227 References 264 Index 290 "This book recounts two deaths, the murder of Mr. Wang Jin by 31 Red Guards in the Nanjing Foreign Language School, where the senior author was a young student at the time; and the earlier murder of Mrs. Bian Zhongyun of the Girls School affiliated with the Beijing Normal University in 1966. The book is a history of two small incidents in a massive social injustice and also an attempt to understand the Cultural Revolution (CR) within the framework of modern social movement theory. The book elaborates on the sources of violence in the CR, and the definition and periodization of the CR (that is, what was it, and when did it begin and end?)"--Back cover