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SUMMARY:How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China - Ms Tania Branigan
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Revolution is everywhere and nowhere in modern Ch
 ina. It is impossible to make sense of China without understanding what ha
 ppened in this decade of political fanaticism\, brutal violence and chaos\
 , which saw perhaps two million die and tens of millions hounded. But it a
 lso seems impossible to truly understand this era\, with its constant chan
 ges and contradictions. Discussion has been suppressed by both political d
 iktat and personal trauma. Even so\, its memory persists.\n\nWhile many re
 main deeply scarred by the horrors\, there is now a surprising nostalgia f
 or the era. It speaks in large part to concerns about the present day but 
 also reflects the appeal of powerful possibilities for transformation whic
 h existed in the era\, however briefly and marginally.\n\nWhat exactly are
  people remembering when they remember the Cultural Revolution? And how ha
 s an era which turned the nation upside down come to be an essential part 
 of the party-state’s maintenance of the political status quo?\n\nTania B
 ranigan is foreign leader writer at the Guardian and spent seven years as 
 its China correspondent. Her book Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s 
 Cultural Revolution won the Cundill History Prize 2023 and was shortlisted
  for the Baillie Gifford prize\, the British Academy Book Prize for Global
  Cultural Understanding and the Kirkus non-fiction prize. It was named as 
 one of the Wall Street Journal’s ten best books of 2023 and TIME’s 100
  must-read books of 2023.
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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