The Killing Wind by Hecheng, Tan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Map—Daoxian at the Time of the Task Force Investigation Foreword: Blood Awakening Preface: Deconstructing the Mythos of Mao Zedong’s Peasant Revolution Translator’s Note Chronology of the Cultural Revolution Killings in Daoxian Introduction Part One The Origin of the Massacre

1. The River of Death 2. My Destiny with Daoxian 3. Daoxian on the Eve of the Massacre

The August 5 county seize-and-push meeting The August 8 gun-snatching incident

4. The Random Killings Begin

First blood at the Xiaba production brigade Xique Zhengjia sparks off the massacre

Part Two Assembling the Machinery of Slaughter

5. The Killing Wind Spreads through Administrative Lines 6. Qingtang District and the Rise of the Peasant Supreme Courts

In the hometown of the philosopher The rise of the peasant supreme courts A commune Communist Party secretary’s story

7. The Red Alliance Role in the Killing Wind

Establishment of the Yingjiang Frontline Command Post The August 21 Yingjiang reporting meeting The Yingjiang Political and Legal Work Conference

Part Three Chetou and Shangguan Districts—Murder as Spectacle

8. Chetou District’s Model Killings

The real story of Chetou District’s “landlord and rich-peasant insurrection” Blood-soaked Meihua An advanced commune encounters a new challenge

9. Shangguan District—in the Eye of the Storm

Shangguan Commune’s on-the-spot killing rallies Killing turncoats as well as landlords

10. Other Communes in Shangguan District

Dongmen Commune: Graffiti on a cottage wall The killings at Wanjiazhuang Commune The unbearable lightness of Futang Commune

Part Four Gongba District, the County’s Top Killer

11. A Dubious Honor

One day in Yanhetang

12. The Killings at Daoxian’s Deadliest Commune

Interview with the Butcher of Gongba Commune

13. Some Who Got Away 14. Death before Marriage

Part Five Qingxi District’s PAFD Commander

15. High-Level Participation in Qingxi District

The Great Leap brigade’s killing sputnik Killings approved by the county organization department head

16. When the Pebble Rises from the Water

Part Six Xianglinpu District’s Militia Push

17. The Shangdu Militia Headquarters

The pressure to stay in the lead

18. Even Heaven Wept 19. Two Classic Cases 20. The Banality of Evil

“The tough job is left to me” A brigade secretary’s story Whatever the Communist Party says

Part Seven Deadly Politics

21. A Little Education Is a Dangerous Thing

The legend of Widow’s Bridge If you loved the Communist Party, would the party kill you?

22. The Price of Truth

The destruction of two Rightist families Death of a “little Peng Dehuai”

23. The Scapegoated Landlord Class

Part Eight The Killers

24. Beyond the Pale

The “big rice pot” Between humans and beasts

25. Brainwashed

The Communist Party secretary who killed a poor-peasant association chairman Duty before family The Iron Maiden of Daoxian

Part Nine The Outliers

26. The Anomalous Xianzijiao District

Qiaotou Commune’s mass-killing rally The last victim

27. The Zhenggangtou Phenomenon 28. The Miracle of Life 29. The Story of an Execution Ground Survivor

Part Ten The Crackdown

30. The 6950 Unit Arrives in Daoxian

The hard task of halting the killing

31. No Regrets

An interview with Revolutionary Alliance leader Liu Xiangxi An interview with Red Alliance leader He Xia

32. The Petitioners

Master petitioner Li Niande A mansion and a family’s fate Rise of a master petitioner

33. Change of Plans

A drinking mishap

34. Killings in the Counties and Cities Surrounding Daoxian

Part Eleven The End of the Killing Wind

35. Huang Yida and the Fall of the Red Alliance

Midnight run to the provincial capital Hua Guofeng’s directive The September 23 Tragedy The exposure study sessions

36. Reversals

In prison Heaven’s unfathomable will

Afterword: Living for Truth Appendix I: Basic Statistics on the Victims of the Daoxian Cultural Revolution Killings Appendix II: Official Culpability in Daoxian’s Killing Wind Notes Index

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