The decade of the Cultural Revolution has been deliberately forgotten to a large degree in China. But it still propels shape so much of what happens in China in the present every day. The U-turn on zero-covid is, of course, of a huge story in China and touching every aspect of life there. How does the shadow of the cultural revolution still fall on that? Well, I think one thing that's really striking is that we saw actually people in China referring to the Cultural Revolution in the context of zero-Covid.
Journalist Tania Branigan has spent years covering China and is Foreign Leader writer for the Guardian. Her new book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, explores the traumatic legacy of the era helmed by China's Chairman Mao throughout the 1960s and 1970s, which left a devastating mark on the psyche of future generations. Joining Branigan in conversation is journalist, author and former China Editor for BBC News, Carrie Gracie.
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