Words Kill: Calling for the Destruction of 'Class Enemies' in China, 1949-1953 (East Asia (New York, N.Y.).)

When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state required effectivly managing significant opposition to the imposition of the Communist regime. This study examines the the Chinese Communist Party employed language as an essential part of its strategy to achieving these goals. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 List of figures, charts, and tables......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 The problem and its setting......Page 23 Formation of genocide–Review of the related literature......Page 43 Data and Method......Page 72 Findings and Interpretations......Page 84 Words kill—Concluding discussions......Page 137 Appendix......Page 144 Bibliography......Page 154 Index......Page 163 When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state required effectively managing significant opposition to the imposition of the Communist regime. This study examines how the Chinese Communist Party employed language as an essential part of its strategy to achieving these goals. When communist revolutionaries seized control of China in 1949, they faced huge challenges of state and nation building. This study examines the language the Chinese Communist Party employed as an essential part of its strategy STUDENTS OF GENOCIDE HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED FOR YEARS BY THE LACK OF effective preventive measures of genocide in the world since Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944. Cheng-chih Wang. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 159-167) And Index.