| Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture Contributor(s): Lipman, Jonathan N. (Editor), Harrell, Stevan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791401154 ISBN-13: 9780791401156 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: 303.62 |
| LCCN: 88-32411 |
| Series: Suny Chinese Local Studies |
| Physical Information: (0.76 lbs) 249 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide variety of situations through the sweep of history and in contexts ranging from the family to the national polity. The book explores motivations for violence from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Historically, the authors cover bloody religious rebellions in premodern times, the depiction of violence in traditional popular novels, ethnic strife between Muslims and Han Chinese in the Northwest, and feuding local communities in the Southeast. Modern China is depicted by analyses of rural and urban violence in Mao's Cultural Revolution and an examination of continuing domestic violence. This depiction of the cultural themes and motivations for violence allow lessons drawn from specific contexts to be applied to the nature of Chinese culture in general. |