Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China

by Zheng Yi, Yi Zheng, Zheng I

Book Overview

This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on his unique access to local archives of the Chinese Communist Party and on extensive interviews with party officials, the victims' relatives, and the murderers themselves, Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture of official compliance in the systematic killing and cannibalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813326168
• ISBN13: 9780813326160
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must read!

This book is very well written and very informative. A must read for anyone who is interested in history and how we can learn from it. Never again!

you want it or not , but it's true...

If realy read this book you can't not dare to have doubts about autor ,you just feel it , like it was happining to you. It's horror!!!

Chinese cannibalism

Cannibalism exists everywhere in the world. But Chinese cannibalism is unique and different from other cannibalism. "They enjoyed eating." The feasts of human flesh during the cultural revolution had the cultural background.

Communism & Cannibalism

The author aptly details the results of government sanctioned murder and cannabalism. The cannabalism was partly a result of the artificially created famine that swept China between 1958-1963. The Chinese Communist Party, despite warnings from Moscow, engaged in exactly the same type of agricultural policies favored by Stalin in the late 1920s and 1930s. The results mirrored the conditions that existed in Russia and especially the Ukraine. Massive famine, starvation, malnutrition, the extermination of entire groups of people, rampant government corruption and incompetence, and finally cannabalism followed in each other in a grim parade. Cannabalism became the norm as entire villages were destroyed silently by the famine. The author highlights the cultural attributes towards cannabalism that are unique to Chinese society and history, apart from the results of the famine. For those who believe (incorrectly) that this work lacks scholarly rigor, or is simply Western race-baiting, I would recommend the following works: "Harvest of Sorrow", "The Black Book of Communism", "The Gulag Archipelago", and "Hungry Ghosts". These works, and their authors, demonstrate the barbarism that was and is communism, and the use of famine as an instrument of social policy. Ad hominem attacks cannot refute the indesputable fact that Communist parties around the world have murdered over 100 million people.

Vomit

That's awful, but it's true. And the Chinese has imputed this cannibalism to every enemy country, such as Japan of WWII.