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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 Jin Ping of the second decade and now the third decade.

Both she-Gin-Ping and one rival that grew up at the same time as she ging ping,

Bo she lie, 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 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 Borshei Li and Shijin Ping, that they were born to figures who'd been involved in the revolution,

had come to power as senior leaders, but as you say 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.

Bwershi lies.

Siblings, we believe his brothers were initially quite active red guards,

we think, but then his father was toppled. His mother, we believe, died after she was beaten by Red Guards. In

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