Wuxuan County

Wuxuan County
武宣县 · Vujsenh Yen
County
Wuxuan Old Street
Wuxuan
Location of the seat in Guangxi
Coordinates: 23°35′38″N 109°39′47″E / 23.594°N 109.663°E / 23.594; 109.663Coordinates: 23°35′38″N 109°39′47″E / 23.594°N 109.663°E / 23.594; 109.663
Country People's Republic of China
Province Guangxi
Prefecture-level city Laibin
Area
  Total 1,739 km2 (671 sq mi)
Population (2004) 416,600
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)

Wuxuan County (Chinese: 武宣县; pinyin: Wǔxuān Xiàn; Zhuang: Vujsenh Yen) is a county in the east-central part of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Laibin.

During the Cultural Revolution, the county was the site of pitched battles between rival factions. The investigative journalist Zheng Yi wrote of these battles and cases of cannibalism of members of the fallen faction in his book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China.[1]

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References

  • Zheng, Yi (1996). Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China. edited and translated by T. P. Sym. With a Foreword by Ross Terrill. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 081332615X.

Further reading

  • Sutton, Donald S. (January 1995). "Consuming Counterrevolution: The Ritual and Culture of Cannibalism in Wuxuan, Guangxi, China, May to July 1968". Comparative Studies in Society and History. Cambridge University Press. 37 (1): 136–172. doi:10.1017/S0010417500019575. JSTOR 179381.
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