cultural revolution, 1966-1976

""It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an absence; official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia. Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a deeply moving portrait of the author's resolute older sister and their childhood in the face of brutal discrimination during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Contains historical information and full-color photographs of posters, clothing, figurines, and other objects from China's Cultural Revolution era, used to communicate the revolutionary ideas of Chairman Mao, many with estimates of value.

"Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion"--Provided by publisher.

Chun Yu, born in a small city in China, describes her childhood growing up in the middle of Chairman Mao's cultural revolution.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

A fictionalized account of the author's experiences growing up in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.