ASIN: B01FQ9DQ6Y
Publisher: Longma
Pages: 343
2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This extraordinary period is vibrantly captured in a sequence of short stories, full of tragedy, humour and satire in beautifully crafted vignettes of life at the time, ordinary and otherwise. Following a rough chronological order, the stories are based on true historical facts, though many of the characters and protagonists are fictional.Like many episodes in history that were painful at the time, and continue to be politically inconvenient well beyond, the truth of what happened is often buried by those that took part, and misrepresented by those that came after. This tendency was no doubt exacerbated by one of the more unusual aspects of this movement: that many of those that did take part became both perpetrators and victims. The People's Republic of China has changed beyond all recognition from this ...
