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Cultural Revolution on the Border: Yunnan's "Political Frontier Defence"

Schoenhals, Michael LU (2004) In The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies p.27-54
Abstract
This paper addresses an important but so far neglected episode in the post-1949 history of China – the impact of the so-called 'Cultural Revolution' on the country's ethnic minority populations. Specifically, it attempts to deal with the movement as it unfolded in the province of Yunnan where, at one stage, it became an attempt by a political leadership in the provincial capital, dominated by

military officers and supported by members of the central authorities in Beijing, to alter the landscape of the ethnic minority populations along the frontier. Using information culled from local histories and contemporary sources, the paper traces the history of what even by the standards of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) came to be... (More)
This paper addresses an important but so far neglected episode in the post-1949 history of China – the impact of the so-called 'Cultural Revolution' on the country's ethnic minority populations. Specifically, it attempts to deal with the movement as it unfolded in the province of Yunnan where, at one stage, it became an attempt by a political leadership in the provincial capital, dominated by

military officers and supported by members of the central authorities in Beijing, to alter the landscape of the ethnic minority populations along the frontier. Using information culled from local histories and contemporary sources, the paper traces the history of what even by the standards of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) came to be regarded as an exceptionally flawed and counterproductive

policy. It foregrounds the human cost of its implementation and, for the first time, goes some way towards explaining – in more than simply general terms of labels like 'excesses' and 'ultra-leftism' – the trauma of those who survived it, a trauma that to this day still lingers in popular memory. (Less)
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China, Politics, Ethnic Minorities, Military, Yunnan, Cultural Revolution
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The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
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19
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27 - 54
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Copenhagen Business School
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1395-4199
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English
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military officers and supported by members of the central authorities in Beijing, to alter the landscape of the ethnic minority populations along the frontier. Using information culled from local histories and contemporary sources, the paper traces the history of what even by the standards of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) came to be regarded as an exceptionally flawed and counterproductive<br/><br>
policy. It foregrounds the human cost of its implementation and, for the first time, goes some way towards explaining – in more than simply general terms of labels like 'excesses' and 'ultra-leftism' – the trauma of those who survived it, a trauma that to this day still lingers in popular memory.}},
  author       = {{Schoenhals, Michael}},
  issn         = {{1395-4199}},
  keywords     = {{China; Politics; Ethnic Minorities; Military; Yunnan; Cultural Revolution}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{19}},
  pages        = {{27--54}},
  publisher    = {{Copenhagen Business School}},
  series       = {{The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies}},
  title        = {{Cultural Revolution on the Border: Yunnan's "Political Frontier Defence"}},
  url          = {{http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/cjas/article/view/24/23}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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