I'm John Batschia with the author Tanya Bronakin,

I'm John Batchew with the author Tanya Bronakin,

Red Memory, the afterlies of China's cultural revolution.

Tanya was eight years in the People's Republic of China between the first decade and

the second decade of the 21st century, and the stories of the teenagers ranging across the country or of the

men, young men born into peasant families in the countryside who find the People's Liberation Army

a ladder up until they run into the Cultural Revolution and are brutalized, we now turn to a story of a man

who's made himself, remade himself into a lawyer after many years of struggle, but his memory is horror.

It's 1970, His name is Jean.

Jean and his father live with their mother who's an educated and

sophisticated woman who has severe doubts about Mao and what's going on.

Tanya introduces to the woman at the center.

You, Shung, her name is, it's Fong's mother.

Yeah, Fung--Jung. Who is she at the time? What is she

representing about the Cultural Revolution? Why is she speaking truth? She was another very committed member of the party, like as I've said so many victims of the Cultural Revolution.

She'd met her husband when they were both training as medical staff working for the party.

And she'd been in that sense a great believer, but she and her family had also been through immense suffering.

So at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution,

her mother was forced to leave the family home, essentially

was forced to go back to her hometown.

Her daughter, Jong-Hong Bing's oldest sister, became a very passionate

Red Guard, was one of the many who travelled to Beijing for the rallies.

...