6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by Tania Branigan (Author)
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6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by Tania Branigan (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957
Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. 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? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?
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| 0:30.6 | I'm John Bachelorette, Tanya Bronek, and her new book is Red Memory, The Afterlives |
| 0:37.6 | of China's Cultural Revolution. |
| 0:40.5 | Remembering all these decades later is a fresh way of participating in history when you |
| 0:47.5 | were too young or weren't even alive to remember these events. |
| 0:51.4 | They can sometimes feel like the English Revolution of the 17th century. |
| 0:56.1 | And we still speak of events that happened in 1605, the gunpowder plot of Oliver Cromwell, |
| 1:04.6 | the Puritans, running across the land. |
| 1:06.5 | America comes out of that period. |
| 1:08.1 | So when we recreate our history, that's what we're doing. |
| 1:12.2 | We're living through it as if it informs us today. |
| 1:16.7 | It's sentimental, but at the same time, it can be stirring. |
| 1:19.3 | In this instance, however, people who were too young to understand what was happening |
| 1:24.5 | around them, as grown-ups have clubs or groups or friendship across the internet. |
| 1:33.0 | And sometimes they meet in person, and entertaining this group, or entertaining everybody in Beijing |
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