Lying to themselves: Secrets of China’s Cultural Revolution
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The Cultural Revolution in China
It's impossible to understand China today without understanding the cultural revolution, you say. Yet it's not openly discussed in China; is that because talking about it is discouraged? Or is it because people would rather forget such terrible things? It's a combination of the two. And I think it's very easy to focus on the political repression, which is undoubtedly there. You have this level of personal trauma, which is just so deep rooted and makes it so hard for people to address it often even within families.
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