In many cases, they struggle with it very understandably. I don't think any of us can imagine what it was like to be 13 or 14 years old and have this man that you revered as a God telling you that it was your duty to see this chaos around you. In some ways for her, it was a time of great freedom. She said in some ways at times it felt almost more like sightseeing or a holiday,. Yet at the same time they also believed that they were on this revolutionary mission.
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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