Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. We're going to be. I'm John Bachelore, with the author Tanya Bronakin,

Red Memory, the after lives 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

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

Tanya introduces to the woman at the center.

Yu Shang, her name is, it's Fangsmaic.

Yeah, Fung-Changmo. 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 traveled to Beijing for the rallies.

But tragically that great movement of the young people across the country contributed to a huge outbreak of meningitis and Jong-hong's being sister was one of those who died shortly after returning.

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