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Cultural Revolution on the Border: Yunnan's "Political Frontier Defence"

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper addresses an important but so far neglected episode in the post-1949 history of China – the impact of the so-called 'Cultural Revolution' on the country's ethnic minority populations. Specifically, it attempts to deal with the movement as it unfolded in the province of Yunnan where, at one stage, it became an attempt by a political leadership in the provincial capital, dominated by

military officers and supported by members of the central authorities in Beijing, to alter the landscape of the ethnic minority populations along the frontier. Using information culled from local histories and contemporary sources, the paper traces the history of what even by the standards of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) came to be regarded as an exceptionally flawed and counterproductive

policy. It foregrounds the human cost of its implementation and, for the first time, goes some way towards explaining – in more than simply general terms of labels like 'excesses' and 'ultra-leftism' – the trauma of those who survived it, a trauma that to this day still lingers in popular memory.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2004

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

27-54

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

Issue

19

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Copenhagen Business School

Ämne

  • History and Archaeology

Nyckelord

  • China
  • Politics
  • Ethnic Minorities
  • Military
  • Yunnan
  • Cultural Revolution

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1395-4199