Source 5: A Landlord is executed near Fujiang, Xinjiang Province (1949)

Source 5: A Landlord is executed near Fujiang, Xinjiang Province (1949)

This photograph depicts the execution of a landlord during the land reform era. Estimates of landlord deaths as a direct consequence of land reform are circa 1.5 – 2 million. In certain areas, it became apparent that innocent people who simply had slightly more wealth than their neighbours were becoming denounced as class enemies and wrongly accused of exploiting others.

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Frank Dikotter (2019) ‘The People’s Republic of China was Born in Chains’ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/01/the-peoples-republic-of-china-was-born-in-chains/