The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976, by Frank Dikötter, Bloomsbury, RRP£25/$32, 432 pages
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by Ji Xianlin, New York Review Books, RRP£14.99/$24.95, 216 pages
In May 1966, student militants in Beijing launched what seemed at the time to be a localised campaign, putting up wall posters that praised Mao Zedong and denounced their university’s administrators for harbouring anti-socialist ideas. Three months later the group, now swollen in numbers and known as the “Red Guards”, poured into Tiananmen Square en masse to receive their revered leader’s blessing.
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