The Guangxi Massacre was the largest documented case of mass cannibalism in human history. The Guangxi culinary abomination took place between 1967 and 1968 in Guangxi, China, a province located directly to the north of North Vietnam. Accordingly, the cannibalistic incident illustrates basic concepts of geopolitics and the way geography, lines of communication, and strategy intersect with social change and religion. Put succinctly, the Guangxi cannibal holocaust demonstrates how culture and strategy impact one another. The incident was part of a Civil War which took place in China during the 1960s, a conflict in which millions of human beings died and hundreds, perhaps thousands, were eaten by their fellow citizens. This is the story of that mass cannibalism. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact. Download episode 106 here: download link Music Source: Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com References: Mao Tse-Tung on Revolution and War edited by M. Rejai A Decade of Upheaval by by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder A Social History of Maoist China by Felix Wemheuer Agents of Disorder by Andrew Walder Civil War in Guangxi by Andrew Walder Encyclopedia of Modern China edited by David Pong The Beijing Red Guard Movement by Andrew Walder Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikotter Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Mao: A Biography by Ross Terrill Mao: A Life by Philip Short Mao Zedong: A Life by Johnathan Spence Mao Zedong by Maurice Meisner Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World by Rebecca Karl Mao – A Young Man from the Yangtze Valley by Bernadette Smith Mao’s China and After by Maurice Meisner On the Culture Revolution in Tibet by Melvyn Goldstein et al. The Poems of Mao Zedong by Mao Zedong. Translated by William Barnstone Scarlet Memorial by Zheng Yi The Secret Speeches of Chairman edited by Roderick MacFarquhar et al. The Cambridge History of China edited by Denis Twitchett and John Fairbank. Volume 15. The Chinese Cultural Revolution by Paul Clark The Chinese Cultural Revolution by Adrian Hsia The Writings of Mao Zedong edited by John Leung China: A History by John Keay