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
R.J. Rummel is emeritus professor of political science at the University of Hawaii. Among his works is Understanding Conflict and War, a study in five volumes.
-This book chronicles the massive loss of life in China due to
non-natural causes during the twentieth century. Drawing almost
entirely on Western language secondary sources, it attempts to
estimate the number of lives lost in each of the major areas of
China's recent history due to political murder, as opposed to
deaths from warfare or natural causes.... His monograph is not the
work of an ideologue.... [I]t does a good job of pulling together a
very disparate literature on political murder in China.- --Richard
E. Barrett, The Journal of Asian Studies -Rummel's data
sufficiently prove his basic point: 'Power kills, and absolute
power kills en masse'. At a time when some governments, the Chinese
prominent among them, argue that there is an Asian (or African, or
Middle Eastern) concept of human rights, that political rights are
not urgently needed by poor people, and that democracy is
detrimental to development, his findings deserve to be at the
centre of debate.- --Andrew J. Nathan, the Australian Journal of
Chinese Affairs
"This book chronicles the massive loss of life in China due to
non-natural causes during the twentieth century. Drawing almost
entirely on Western language secondary sources, it attempts to
estimate the number of lives lost in each of the major areas of
China's recent history due to political murder, as opposed to
deaths from warfare or natural causes.... His monograph is not the
work of an ideologue.... [I]t does a good job of pulling together a
very disparate literature on political murder in China." --Richard
E. Barrett, The Journal of Asian Studies "Rummel's data
sufficiently prove his basic point: 'Power kills, and absolute
power kills en masse'. At a time when some governments, the Chinese
prominent among them, argue that there is an Asian (or African, or
Middle Eastern) concept of human rights, that political rights are
not urgently needed by poor people, and that democracy is
detrimental to development, his findings deserve to be at the
centre of debate." --Andrew J. Nathan, the Australian Journal of
Chinese Affairs
"This book chronicles the massive loss of life in China due to
non-natural causes during the twentieth century. Drawing almost
entirely on Western language secondary sources, it attempts to
estimate the number of lives lost in each of the major areas of
China's recent history due to political murder, as opposed to
deaths from warfare or natural causes.... His monograph is not the
work of an ideologue.... [I]t does a good job of pulling together a
very disparate literature on political murder in China." --Richard
E. Barrett, The Journal of Asian Studies "Rummel's data
sufficiently prove his basic point: 'Power kills, and absolute
power kills en masse'. At a time when some governments, the Chinese
prominent among them, argue that there is an Asian (or African, or
Middle Eastern) concept of human rights, that political rights are
not urgently needed by poor people, and that democracy is
detrimental to development, his findings deserve to be at the
centre of debate." --Andrew J. Nathan, the Australian Journal of
Chinese Affairs
"This book chronicles the massive loss of life in China due to
non-natural causes during the twentieth century. Drawing almost
entirely on Western language secondary sources, it attempts to
estimate the number of lives lost in each of the major areas of
China's recent history due to political murder, as opposed to
deaths from warfare or natural causes.... His monograph is not the
work of an ideologue.... [I]t does a good job of pulling together a
very disparate literature on political murder in China." --Richard
E. Barrett, The Journal of Asian Studies
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