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“This book chronicles the massive loss of life in China due to non-natural causes during the twentieth century. Barrett, The Journal of Asian Studies“Rummel’s data sufficiently prove his basic point: ‘Power kills, and absolute power kills en masse’. His monograph is not the work of an ideologue…. Nathan, the Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs. It does a good job of pulling together a very disparate literature on political murder in China.”—Richard E. 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 r

Dishonest mishandling of data Patrick Mcnally A prime example of how data is mishandled in this book can be found when the author goes off on page 248 by first telling us that 9.5 million had died in the famine of 1877-8 and then contrasting this with a range of estimates which he quotes from various people about the famine of 1960. He then settles on concluding that

J. He is the author of over one hundred scholarly articles and two dozen books, including Power Kills, China’s Bloody Century, and The Miracle That Is Freedom. R.  In addition, he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and been the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association and the International Association of Genocide Scholars’ Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribu

For the first time in one place, hundreds of published estimates of Chinese genocide and mass murder are listed with sources, analyzed, and their historical context presented. 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. In China's Bloody Century, R.J. The final part offers an appendix that explains and elaborates the statistical computations and estimates.While estimates are available in the literature on the number of Chinese killed in Communist land reform, or in Tibet, or by the Nationalists in one military campaign or another, until this book no one has tried to systematically accumulate, organize, add up, and analyze these diverse killings for all of China's governments in this century. 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. 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. Rummel first relates the history of the period within which the nature and the a