Map Blood Awakening 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 Chapter 1: The River of Death Chapter 2: My Destiny with Daoxian Chapter 3: Daoxian on the Eve of the Massacre Chapter 4: The Random Killings Begin Part Two: Assembling the Machinery of Slaughter Chapter 5: The Killing Wind Spreads through Administrative Lines Chapter 6: Qingtang District and the Rise of the Peasant Supreme Courts Chapter 7: The Red Alliance Role in the Killing Wind Part Three: Chetou and Shangguan Districts - Murder as Spectacle Chapter 8: Chetou District's Model Killings Chapter 9: Shangguan District - In the Eye of the Storm Chapter 10: Other Communes in Shangguan District Part Four: Gongba District, the County's Top Killer Chapter 11: A Dubious Honor Chapter 12: The Killings at Daoxian's Deadliest Commune Chapter 13: Some Who Got Away Chapter 14: Death before Marriage Chapter 15: High-level Participation in Qingxi District Chapter 16: When the Pebble Rises from the Water Part Six: Xianglinpu District's Militia Push Chapter 17: The Shangdu Militia Headquarters Chapter 18: Even Heaven Wept Chapter 19: Two Classic Cases Chapter 20: The Banality of Evil Part Seven: Deadly Politics Chapter 21: A Little Education Is a Dangerous Thing Chapter 22: The Price of Truth Chapter 23: The Scapegoated Landlord Class Part Eight: The Killers Chapter 24: Beyond the Pale Chapter 25: Brainwashed Part Nine: The Outliers Chapter 26: The Anomalous Xianzijiao District Chapter 27: The Zhenggangtou Phenomenon Chapter 28: The Miracle of Life Chapter 29: The Story of an Execution Ground Survivor Part Ten: The Crackdown Chapter 30: The 6950 Unit Arrives in Daoxian Chapter 31: No Regrets Chapter 32: The Petitioners Chapter 33: Change of Plans Chapter 34: Killings in the Counties and Cities Surrounding Daoxian Part Eleven: The End of the Killing Wind Chapter 35: Huang Yida and the Fall of the Red Alliance Chapter 36: Reversals 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

"The author's documentation of the recollections culminates in a powerful chapter of interviews with surviving perpetrators many years later, who carry little to no remorse for the crimes." -- A. Cho, CHOICE "The author's documentation of the recollections culminates in a powerful chapter of interviews with surviving perpetrators many years later, who carry little to no remorse for the crimes."--A. Cho, CHOICE "The Killing Wind documents one of the most shocking atrocities during the Cultural Revolution. Tan Hecheng, a brave Chinese journalist, has risked his life to tell the world the truth about this crime against humanity perpetrated by a brutal totalitarian regime. This is a book those who want to preserve China's collective memory must read."--Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College; author of China's Trapped Transition "Politics can cause wars-we know that. But can politics also lead to mass murder? It did in the Holocaust, Pol Pot's killing fields, the Rwandan genocide. Where else? One case, from China in the late 1960s, is very hard to read about, and for two quite different reasons: for one, the Chinese government has done what it can to keep the story away from you; and second, once in your hands, you may find parts of it extremely difficult to get through."--Perry Link, University of California, Riverside "The Killing Wind represents an important study and new scholarship. The analysis of the massacre at Daoxian, including its sociological and political dimensions, reveals the devastating human toll on ordinary people that has for too long been ignored about the Cultural Revolution and the making of the modern Chinese state."--Joyce Apsel, President of the Institute for Study of Genocide; Clinical Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University "That we know the truth about Dao County is due to one person: a garrulous, stubborn, and emotional editor who stumbled over the story thirty years ago and decided that it was his fate to tell it. His name is Tan Hecheng...[The Killing Wind] is masterfully translated by the team of Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian."--The New York Review of Books "It is hard to exaggerate the force of Chinese journalist Tan Hecheng's The Killing Wind... A truly remarkable testament to the ways in which Chinese historians, working within China, have been able, despite all the restrictions and restraints there, to write some of the most amazing, powerful material."--South China Morning Post

Selling point: Features vivid vignettes and interviews from survivors of the Daoxian massacre Selling point: Delves into the long term consequences of the killings Selling point: A powerful deconstruction of Mao Zedong's mythos of peasant revolution Selling point: Sheds light on one of the twentieth century's greatest human tragedies

Selling point: Features vivid vignettes and interviews from survivors of the Daoxian massacre Selling point: Delves into the long term consequences of the killings Selling point: A powerful deconstruction of Mao Zedong's mythos of peasant revolution Selling point: Sheds light on one of the twentieth century's greatest human tragedies