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Book SynopsisExcept for Soviet citizens, no people in this century have endured so much mass killing as have the Chinese. They have been murdered by rebels conniving with their own rulers, and then, after the defeat in war of the imperial dynasty, by soldiers of other lands. They have been killed by warlords who ruled one part of China or another. They have been executed by Nationalists or Communists because they had the wrong beliefs or attitudes or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. In China''s Bloody Century, R.J. Rummel''s careful estimate of the total number of killings exceeds 5 million.
How do we explain such killings, crossing ideological bounds and political conditions? According to Rummel, the one constant factor in all the Chinese mass murder, as it was in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, is arbitrary power. It was the factor that united warlords, Nationalists, Communists, and foreign armies. The author argues that whenever such undisciplined power is c
Table of Contents
1 Introduction and Overview I TRANSFOEMATION AND THE NATIONALIST STRUGGLE, 1900 TO SEPTEMBER 1949 2 105,000 Victims: Dynastic and Republican China 3 632,000 Victims: Warlord China 4 2,724,000 Victims: The Nationalist Period 5 10,216,000 Victims: The Sino-Japanese War 6 3,949,000 Victims: Japanese Mass Murder in China 7 4,968,000 Victims: The Civil War II THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 8 The People's Republic of China: Overview 9 8,427,000 Victims: The Totalization Period 10 7,474,000 Victims: Collectivization and 'The Great Leap Forward 11 10,729,000 Victims: The Great Famine and Retrenchment Period 12 7,731,000 Victims: The Cultural Revolution 13 874,000 Victims: Liberalization
