Book contents
- Justice After Mao
- Justice After Mao
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Property
- Part II The Mechanics of Rehabilitation
- 4 Dealing with Victims of the Cultural Revolution
- 5 Villagers, Cadres, and the Politics of Rehabilitation in Post-Mao China, 1979–1982
- Part III The Politics of Truth
- Part IV Memory
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Dealing with Victims of the Cultural Revolution
The Case of Guangxi, 1983–1987
from Part II - The Mechanics of Rehabilitation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2023
- Justice After Mao
- Justice After Mao
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Property
- Part II The Mechanics of Rehabilitation
- 4 Dealing with Victims of the Cultural Revolution
- 5 Villagers, Cadres, and the Politics of Rehabilitation in Post-Mao China, 1979–1982
- Part III The Politics of Truth
- Part IV Memory
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter relies on official and unofficial sources that have recently been made available to examine how the Chinese Communist Party introduced methods of reparation to deal with deaths that resulted from the egregious killings that took place in Guangxi between 1967 and 1968. Newly regrouped party leadership in the early post-Mao era designed a special reparation strategy and framework that included compensation, restitution, rehabilitation, implicit state apology, and commemorative acts; of these, the government prioritized rehabilitation while marginalizing the role of material reparation, largely because of final constraints.
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- Justice After MaoThe Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China, pp. 99 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023