XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 2/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957
Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?
1966 Cultural Revolution
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| 0:41.0 | It is August 1966. We're at the Beijing Normal University's attached girls school. This is a |
| 0:48.2 | girl school, young girls, for the elite of the party, the elite of Beijing. |
| 0:54.4 | There is a vice principal, a teacher, Bien. |
| 0:58.0 | She is murdered over the next several days. |
| 1:01.2 | We're introduced to her not in person, but through the memory of her husband, |
| 1:06.8 | Wong Jing Yao. |
| 1:08.8 | Tanya, Wong has assembled a memory of those events, |
| 1:14.4 | and he was taking photographs at the time, |
| 1:17.1 | and he keeps them all these years later. |
| 1:20.2 | What is it that he hopes someday those photographs and those memories will achieve? |
| 1:26.5 | Very much like Puncheon he really felt that the events of the Cultural Revolution and particularly the victims of the Cultural |
| 1:35.1 | Revolution had to be remembered, had to be commemorated, had to be mourned, because of course when his wife first died even to mourn her |
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