"Exploring the Legacy of China's Cultural Revolution Through 'Red Memory'"

Tania Branigan's book Red Memory: Living, Remembering, and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution attempts to profile people shaped by a still-sensitive political disaster that occurred four decades ago, with memories that have inevitably warped with time and self-censorship. Branigan comes closer to reconstructing what it was like to live through and then live with one of the most brutal periods of modern Chinese history than anyone else has in the English language.