Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm John Batscher 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 happen in 1605 the gunpowder plot and

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 doing 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 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?

Is that, that was the man he's...

Lin Biao.

Yes, Lin Biao. Yes, I mean, Lin Biau. Yes, yes. Yes, I mean Lin Bia, I was I have to say I was fairly flabbergasted to discover a Linbiaa impersonator as well. I mean there are plenty of Mao impersonators, other key figures like Joe and Lai and so forth.

Lindbeau was much more surprising precisely because he's been vilified for so long

as the sort of the greatest enemy of the people really.

Even though he died before the end of the Cultural Revolution,

he was actually given a posthumous show trial for his responsibilities of the era and he had this extraordinary

trajectory in which he went from being something of a military hero through to being really Mao's chief

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