Tania Branigan: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness.
ISBN: |
9781783352661 |
Author: |
Tania Branigan |
Page: |
304 |
Binding: |
Soft cover |
Publication date: |
2024 |
Format: |
Book |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Language: |
English |
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A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure, and struggles with her doubts. A silenced composer, facing death, determines to capture the turmoil. An idealistic student becomes the 'corpse master' . . .
More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence.
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