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Continuing with Tanya Bronnegan, her new book is Red Memory,

the after-lives of China's Cultural Revolution.

Tanya's reporting for the Guardian over many years, over eight years, between the time of

Hoosien Tao and his premiership, his general secretary ship in the first decade of the 21st century and she

jinging of the second decade and now the third decade both

she jing ping and one rival that grew up at the same time as she

ginging, Bozilai, are victims of the Red Guard

and were part of the Red Guard at the same time.

Born between, I'm going to guess 1946 the end of the second war and the Japanese occupation and

1956 the

Speech the secret speech in Moscow by Khrushchev.

That generation right in there, my generation.

All victims of, all persecuted by, all part of the Red Guard have opinions of them.

And these two men are known as princelings.

Tanya, again your book is wonderful.

What is a princeling in China? What does that mean when people talk about them?

These are the children who were born to the very top communist leaders,

particularly in the case of Borshilai and Shijinping, that they were born to figures who'd been involved in the revolution had come to power as senior leaders but as you say who both fell

foul of Mao very spectacularly as so many people at the top of the party did and

so in both cases their families suffered immensely in the Cultural Revolution.

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