I hope people also think about the parallels with our society, it was really important to me that people didn't just see this as being a book about China. The weaponization of fear and the idea that you draw these lines and somebody is on one side or the other- all those are things I sort of saw parallels with with the demonization of people. It will make people think about what they would do in these situations. We've pretty much run out of time, tiny book, just one last question about you researching and writing this book. You know when sort of Mao says who are our enemies, who are our friends, this is the most important question and to me so much-
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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