Yang Kuisong 杨奎松

East China Normal University, Shanghai

Publication: Reconsidering the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, The China Quarterly 193, 2008
Proof: Open the work ↗Link checked 2026-10-04
Zhenfan figure: higher than 712,000
Method: Reads an internal state report, Xu Zirong of Public Security, January 1954, against the centre's own quota. His source apparatus was not read directly; the position is corroborated by three independent sources, none of them him.
Affiliations and stated position: Not verified. A mainland-based historian publishing in the PRC and in Western journals, so mainland publishing constraints apply as a structural matter. No sourced statement of censorship of him specifically.
Criticism: No published criticism found by name. Cited approvingly by Cheng, Zhou Xun and Cathcart. Cheng advances past his causal explanation without disputing the count.

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