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Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi, Classified Documents
EditorSong Yongyi, et al
AuthorGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
LanguageChinese
Series36 (2016), 10 (2017)
SubjectCultural Revolution
Published2016 and 2017 (Guoshi Press, United States)
ISBN9781630327217

Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi, Classified Documents (simplified Chinese: 广西文革机密档案资料; traditional Chinese: 廣西文革機密檔案資料) are official documents containing historical details about the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) in Guangxi.[1][2] The archives were originally composed by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, and were later published in the United States in 2016 and 2017 after being compiled by Chinese historian Song Yongyi and others.[1][2][3] The main archives published in 2016 contain 36 volumes,[1] and the supplements published in 2017 contain 10 volumes,[4][5] giving a total of approximately 9 million word count in Chinese.[6]

Composition

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During the Boluan Fanzheng period after the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Beijing received a large number of visitors from Guangxi who arrived to report large-scale massacres and massive cannibalism, claims that were initially denied by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2][7][8][9]

Beginning 1981, at least three investigation teams were sent to Guangxi by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders in Beijing, including Hu Yaobang (then Chairman and General Secretary of the CCP) and Xi Zhongxun.[3][6][7][9][10] The investigation teams were led by Li Rui, Zhou Yifeng (周一峰) and other senior officials from the CCP central leadership.[7][8][9][10] In a span of approximately five years, the Guangxi CCP Regional Committee was re-organized and over 100,000 local officials were tasked with investigating and resolving the remaining issues from the Cultural Revolution.[2][6][8]

Between 1986 and 1988, the Guangxi CCP Regional Committee composed the Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi (广西"文革"档案资料), after collecting and compiling reports from cities and counties in Guangxi, making the Archives the most comprehensive historical documents about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi.[3][8][9][11] The Archives were divided into 18 volumes, each of which has 600-800 pages in length.[10][11] In particular, the Archives contain details of the Guangxi Massacre and the massive cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution.[3][6][8][12][13]

Publication

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A number of CCP officials (and their families), including those who were part of the official investigation teams in the 1980s, had brought copies of the Archives out of mainland China and these copies were then kept in libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress, Harvard University Library, Stanford University Libraries and so on.[6][13]

A research team led by Chinese historian Song Yongyi subsequently started to organize and compile the copies, eventually publishing them with Guoshi Press in the United States, as the Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi, Classified Documents in 2016 followed by the Supplement in 2017.[3][6][8][13] It took six years of effort by Song to secure each volume from a network of archivists, collectors and high-ranking Chinese officials who smuggled out documents.[14] The main Secret Archives contain 36 volumes, with over 7 million word count in Chinese, and the Supplement contain 10 volumes.[1][4][5][8][13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "广西文革机密档案资料 = Secret archives about the cultural revolution in Guangxi, classified documents". WorldCat. 2016. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  2. ^ a b c d Song, Yongyi, ed. (2016-05-12). 廣西文革機密檔案資料（1） (in Chinese). Guoshi Press. ISBN 978-1-63032-721-7.
  3. ^ a b c d e Johnson, Ian (2016-10-27). "China: The Virtues of the Awful Convulsion". ChinaFile. The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2024-11-19. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  4. ^ a b "广西文革机密档案资料 : (续编) = Supplement to the secret archives about the cultural revolution in Guangxi, classified documents". WorldCat. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  5. ^ a b Song, Yongyi, ed. (2017). Guangxi wen ge ji mi dang an zi liao: (xu bian) = Supplement to the secret archives about the cultural revolution in Guangxi, classified documents. Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo dang an = Historical archives of the People's Republic of China (Di yi ban ed.). Deer Park, NY: Guo shi chu ban she. ISBN 978-1-63032-778-1. Archived from the original on 2024-11-30.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Luo, Siling (2018-03-14). "习近平欲为文革翻案？解读新版历史教科书争议" [Xi Jinping tried to rehabilitate Cultural Revolution? Analysis on the controversy over the new edition of history textbook]. The New York Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  7. ^ a b c Yan, Lebin. 我参与处理广西文革遗留问题 [The remaining issues I participated in handling regarding the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi]. Yanhuang Chunqiu (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g "广西机密档案续编揭露文革反人类罪行" [The Supplement to the Guangxi Secret Archives reveal the crimes against humanity during the Cultural Revolution]. Radio France Internationale (in Chinese). 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  9. ^ a b c d Song, Yongyi (2017-04-03). "广西文革绝密档案中的大屠杀和性暴力" [The massacre and sexual violence documented in the Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi]. China News Digest (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  10. ^ a b c Song, Yongyi (2016). "广西文革中的吃人狂潮" [The massive wave of cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi] (PDF). Chinese University of Hong Kong (in Chinese). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 September 2021.
  11. ^ a b Xiao, Xiao (2014-04-30). "《文革机密档案——广西报告》由美国明镜出版社出版" [Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi has been published by Mingjing Press] (PDF). Yesterday (昨天) (in Chinese) (33): 2.
  12. ^ "Cannibalism in China 50 years on". Radio France Internationale. 2016-05-22. Archived from the original on 2024-04-28. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  13. ^ a b c d Fang, Bing (2016-05-17). "广西文革机密档案资料：文革活化石" [Secret Archives about the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi: Living Fossil of the Cultural Revolution]. Voice of America (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-03-30.
  14. ^ "Suppressed records revealed 50 years after China's Cultural Revolution". The Globe and Mail. 2016-05-15. Archived from the original on 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
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