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Cargando... Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution (edición 2023)por Tania Branigan (Autor)
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"'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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Tania Branigan tries to correct that in Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. She accepts the restrictions placed on reporting and memorializing the Cultural Revolution, and tries to find perpetrators, thinkers, and Red Guards. Unfortunately, despite genuinely trying, she doesn't get very far. This book ends up with lots of speculation about motives and not much on-the-ground reporting.
Branigan finds a few former Red Guards but none of them were directly involved in any atrocities. All of them report that they heard about bad things, but had no direct knowledge. Even in her interviews with Song Binbin's classmates - Binbin was a high school student who practically inaugurated the Cultural Revolution when she allegedly encouraged the beating death of her principal Bian Zhongyun - Branigan comes away with very little information, although these interviews are important for the historical record.
The book provides some of the timeline of the Cultural Revolution and does an excellent job dividing it between the urban and rural phases, but it is not meant as an exhaustive history. For that, Frank Dikötter's "The Cultural Revolution" suffices.
In the end, there is far too much editorializing and speculation in Red Memory. I hope Branigan will return to the subject and document more interviews with people who participated in the Cultural Revolution. ( )