The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent Into Madness During the Cultural Revolution by Hecheng Tan, Tan Hecheng

The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent Into Madness During the Cultural Revolution

Hecheng Tan, Tan Hecheng

536 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced
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Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death...

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