PREVIEW: Why did Mao turn on Lin and what did Lin's mysterious death mean to the Red Guards? Tania Branigan: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by Tania Branigan (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:30.5 | This is John Batchler. |
| 0:32.0 | In tonight's preview, I speak with Tanya Branigan, the author of the new book Red Memory, |
| 0:38.0 | about the cultural revolution of the 20th century and the people's Republic of China. |
| 0:43.0 | The time of sadism, cruelty, mass murder, and what now is regarded as the cursing of a |
| 0:49.7 | generation, born between say 1946 and 1956, who were burdened with the mania of imposing |
| 1:01.2 | Mao's will on the people of China. |
| 1:03.8 | It took the form of chaos, anarchy, flundering, abuse, turning on your teachers, turning on |
| 1:10.9 | your parents, vast. |
| 1:13.6 | In the meantime Mao consolidating his power among the other Chinese Communist Party, turned |
| 1:21.0 | on his number one acolyte, Lin Mao, a man who had been a military hero in the revolution, |
| 1:28.5 | and then turned into a synchophant, Mao's lieutenant, the presumed Mao's successor. |
| 1:35.6 | Until Mao turned on Lin Biao, and he fled and died, here's Tanya Branigan, not only explaining |
| 1:43.1 | the death of Lin under mysterious circumstances, but also how his death put a stop on the red |
| 1:51.5 | guard mania, at least in terms of the people who most believe that Chairman Mao was all |
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