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PREVIEW: #REDGUARDS: #MAOISM: Excerpt from conversation with author Tania Branigan re her new book, RED MEMORY, re the Red Guard teenaged marauders of 19666-1976 -- an attempt to understand how child soldiers like the Red Guard could be manipulated into s

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: #REDGUARDS: #MAOISM: Excerpt from conversation with author Tania Branigan re her new book, RED MEMORY, re the Red Guard teenaged marauders of 19666-1976 -- an attempt to understand how child soldiers like the Red Guard could be manipulated into sadism toward strangers and even their own families. More later.

1966 Cultural Revolution

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This is John Bachelor, speaking with the author Tanya Bronigan who was many years in the People's

0:35.5

Republic of China for the Guardian newspaper. Her book, Red Memory, The After Lives of China's Cultural

0:42.2

Revolution. She interviews the red guards of the

0:46.2

1960s, 70s, now senior citizens in China, their memories of the mayhem and the chaos and the frantic lives they lived as

0:56.7

teenagers and in this particular moment Tanya does us the favor of trying to describe what she learned about the motivation and the thinking

1:08.8

of a teenager who's rolling around the country with her other teenagers visiting people with

1:17.3

chaos and violence and why and how. I take it as a measure of what happens when children, young children, are militarized

1:27.8

in some fashion without limits. And in a fashion might be a window on what the threat is of social media, especially

1:38.2

Tik-Tok in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party to influence children all around the world, not only their own children,

1:45.0

but children in the United States and Europe.

1:48.0

Here's Tanya Branigan on the Red Guard and the thinking of a teenager who's unholstered to be life and death for adults.

2:02.8

Tanya Branigan.

2:04.8

But of course, like so many Red Guards at the time,

2:08.2

she was also very zealous herself in a sense.

2:11.6

She had a very idealistic view. It's very hard. very

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