This is a new book, Red Memory, the after

this is CBSi and the world.

I'm John Batchelor with the author of the new book Red Memory,

the after-lives of China's Cultural Revolution.

Tanya Braun, and we go to a moment August of 1966,

red August, it's called, and the memories of a 13-year-old many decades later in her 60s and 70s

about how she got caught up in events that she could not understand and still is haunted, cursed by the memories of what she

saw between August of 66 and her

name is jus ching jang.

Tanya you was 13 years old and she's remembering now these many decades later. She was part of the rally I believe the

date is 3 a.m. August 18th we were called to Tiananmen Square. Why what

was what happened that moment? So this was the first of the mass

rallies that Chairman Mao held for teenagers for red guards really giving his seal of approval to the Red Guard movement, because of course the Cultural

Revolution was not a grassroots uprising, although the first Red Guard groups formed spontaneously it was within a context where it was

becoming clear that Mao wanted upheaval and Mao of course was a figure that they

revered as a god really and so Mao had

summoned them he his aim was to turn to the masses particularly young people

to wipe out political opposition to him within the

party. But he really called the upon these young people and it was a great

sort of grand ideological overhaul in which he said that the revolution had

failed or fallen short in a sense that the people within the party were either

actively working with people to try and turn it back or

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