I'm John Bachelor with Tanya Braunigan, her new book is Red Memory, the after lives of China's

Cultural Revolution.

Remembering all these decades later is a fresh way of participating in history when you were

too young or weren't even alive to remember these events. They can sometimes feel like the English

revolution of the 17th century and we still speak of events that happened in

1605, the gunpowder plot,

of Oliver Cromwell, the Puritans riding across the land.

America comes out of that period.

So when we recreate our history,

that's what we're

living through it as if it informs us today.

It's sentimental but at the same time it can be stirring.

In this instance, however, people who were too young to understand what was happening around them, as grown-ups have clubs or groups or friendship across the internet and sometimes they meet in person and

entertaining this group or entertaining everybody in in Beijing and Shanghai

wherever he travels is an impersonator of the most famous

villain of the gang of well the man who was chief rival to Mao Tse Tung.

This flabbergasted me, Tanya, the man who looks like his name was

Lou? That was the man he's...

Lin Bia. Lin Bia. Yes, Lin Bia. that was the man is limbiao yes

yes i mean limbia i was i have to say i was fairly flabagast did to discover a

limbia impersonator as well i mean there are plenty of Mao impersonators, other key figures like Joe and

lie and so forth. Lindbea was much more surprising precisely because he's been vilified for so long as the sort of the greatest enemy of the people really.

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