This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

The Red Guards, the Cultural Revolution, 20th century nightmares, and yet read memory,

the new book, The After Lives of China's Cultural Revolution

by Tanya Bronigan, takes us back to that time of the People's Republic of China, and then

brings us forward again. We begin with an event, however, that is Tanya's reporting as a representative of the Guardian newspaper,

and it is the Hush and Tao era.

This is the first decade of the 21st century.

And we visit the Pagoda Museum.

What is significant about this is that there's a museum that appears to be remembering

the Red Guards, remembering the cultural revolution. And yet, Tanya, congratulations, and a very

good evening to you. Your book is a delight only because all of this is new to me. At the same time, I remember what I was doing

in 1960, 1979, with no knowledge of these terrible events. You go to a museum, and the museum

is the product of one man's genius, Peng Chian.

What is the museum represent?

What was it meant to represent as you visited?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

And thank you for having me on your show.

The museum in Shanto is really the only place in China that records the history of the

cultural revolution. And this, of course, was a decade that really tore China apart. We saw

extraordinary violence, chaos, then a long period of stagnation in which China was really

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