understanding cruelty in a way that conventional peace and conflict studies cannot. Even the genre of ethnographically informed conflict studies, however, struggles with notions of perpetration, volition, and culpability. More to the point, conflict studies
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Red Book. As mentioned, the official title of the Little Red Book was Quotations from Chairman Mao , in Pinyin, Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù . The last word in the title refers to the traditional Chinese genre of yǔlù , the paradigm of which is the Analects , a
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