Violence in China

Essays in Culture and Counterculture
Herausgeber: Lipman, Jonathan N; Harrell, Stevan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 1990
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780791401132
• ISBN-10: 0791401138
• Artikelnr.: 54148484

Autorenporträt

Jonathan N. Lipman is Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Stevan Harrell is Professor of Anthropology and International Studies and Director of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program at the University of Washington.