Red Memory: The Afterlives of Chinas Cultural Revolution Branigan Tania
Red Memory: The Afterlives of Chinas Cultural Revolution Branigan Tania "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. Yet in China…
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of Chinas Cultural Revolution Branigan Tania
"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an absence; official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children condemned parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned.
Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. What happens to the present when the past is buried,
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