Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie...

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Tania Branigan

Red Memory

Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie...

Tania Branigan

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English

Faber & Faber
04 April 2023

History; Asian history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history

'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A masterpiece.' JULIA LOVELL

A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure, and struggles with her doubts. A silenced composer, facing death, determines to capture the turmoil. An idealistic student becomes the 'corpse master' . . .

More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence.

Red Memory explores the stories of those who are driven to confront the era, fearing or yearning its return. What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the pastis buried, exploited or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

By: Tania Branigan
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 503g
ISBN: 9781783352647
ISBN 10: 1783352647
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tania Branigan is the Guardian's foreign leader writer. Having spent seven years as the Guardian's China correspondent, her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post and the Australian. Red Memory is her first book.@taniabranigan