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This is a rather long episode, running at just about one hour. The Guangxi Massacre is one of those dark chapters from the Cultural Revolution. Down in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, it was particularly dark. I was listening to Stanford Professor of Anthropology Andrew G. Walder on the New Books Network discussing his 2023 book covering this topic. That gave me the initial inspiration. Dr. Walder's book and a few others are very disturbing to read. I didn't dwell on some of the more gory and grotesque parts of this story. Hoowever, the books are all rather free with their descriptions of some of the atrocities committed. There's one excerpt I did include in the Patreon and CHP Premium audio. But I won't be including it in the regular CHP feed. This episode is particularly interesting because it involves a province other than the usual suspects along the coast. And it stars Wei Guoqing 韦国清, someone I'm guessing doesn't ring a bell. Let me know what you think. This was a painful episode to research and present.

Suggested Reading:

Zheng Yi, “Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China https://a.co/d/89TkvH6

Andrew G. Walder, “Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery” https://a.co/d/8XWipif

Yang Su, “Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution” https://a.co/d/5BF7C2R

New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast featuring Andrew G. Walder: https://pca.st/gh0p9udt

Search for The Secret Archives About the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi《廣西文革機密檔案資料》

0:00.0	Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.
0:04.5	Laslo Montgomery here with another China history podcast episode.
0:09.0	By the time this one reaches your podcast feeds,
0:11.6	it'll be right around the actual 15-year anniversary of the launch of this
0:15.9	long-running family program.
0:18.4	Since June 2010, you've been such a lovely audience.
0:22.7	With all the recent talk about the USA, having its cultural revolution moment,
0:28.6	well, I was inspired to release another episode covering that period of time.
0:33.3	There have been so many parallels drawn between the 10 years of chaos in China from
0:40.4	1966 to 1976 with what's going on right now in these United States.
0:49.6	Yeah, it's not hard to cherry pick a bunch of things that might lead one to believe.
0:54.7	This is the case that America is now going through a similar kind of moment in its history.
1:01.3	It's all very interesting.
1:02.7	And some could use the GPCR, the Great Brilitarian Cultural Revolution,
1:08.1	as a cutout to point to in order to mock or heap scorn on the behavior
1:13.4	and actions of the current administration and power. To compare America's cultural divide,
1:20.8	the coast-to-coast rancor and acrimony being spewed out in 10,000 directions, to compare what's
1:27.2	going on here right now with the events that happened in China beginning in August, 1966,
1:35.2	it's quite a stretch and sort of trivializes what went down nationwide in China during the real GPCR.
1:43.4	We're going to look at one of the most horrific yet lesser known
1:46.4	events. And if society in the beautiful country as we know it today should ever fall this low
1:51.9	to the depths that I'm going to present over the next hour, then I'll be sold on the notion that we're
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Ep. 366 | The Guangxi Massacre

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

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