Red memory : the afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution /
"'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on 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. 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. Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness"-- |
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| Item Description: | "First published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber Limited in 2023 under the title Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 283 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279). |
| ISBN: | 9781324051954 1324051957 |