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Episode: Lying to themselves: Secrets of China’s Cultural Revolution
Description: During China’s Cultural Revolution, pupils murdered their teachers, children betrayed their parents and society was torn apart in the name of progress. Decades on, it inspires both horror and nostalgia — but is rarely mentioned in public. Tania Branigan, author of Red Memory, tells Ros Taylor how China’s citizens deal with the Revolution’s violent legacy – and what it can teach us about China today.
“There was a kind of idealism there, the inevitable joy and excitement that young people would feel in an upheaval of that kind”.
“Many people in China regard the Cultural Revolutio...