7/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by Tania Branigan (Author)
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
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7/8: 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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| 0:37.8 | I'm John Bachelor with the author, Tanya Bronnigan. |
| 0:40.8 | Red memory, the afterlife of China's cultural revolution. |
| 0:44.8 | Tanya was eight years in the People's Republic of China |
| 0:47.7 | between the first decade and the second decade of the 21st century. |
| 0:53.1 | And the stories of the teenagers ranging across the country |
| 0:57.2 | or of the young men born into peasant families in the countryside |
| 1:03.7 | who find the People's Liberation Army |
| 1:06.1 | a ladder up until they run into the cultural revolution and are brutalised. |
| 1:10.4 | We now turn to a story of a man who's made himself |
| 1:14.0 | remade himself into a lawyer after many years |
| 1:17.0 | of struggle, but his memory is horror. |
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