Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County

This book explores the cultural and social roots of violence in China by studying the history of recurrent, massive carnage in one county, Macheng, between the expulsion of the Mongols in the 14th century and the Japanese invasion of 1938.

Author: William T. Rowe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/31/2006
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.28w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780804754965

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 60

About the Author
William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of three previous books, all published by Stanford University Press: Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China (2001), Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (1984), and Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895 (1989).