Nien Cheng Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"[A]fter unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them."

by:	Nien Cheng [Yao Nien-Yuan 姚念媛] (1915 - 2009) Chinese author who recounted her harrowing experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir 'Life and Death in Shanghai'
Source:	Life and Death in Shanghai, 1987
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Categories:	China, Communism, Insurgence, History, Culture, Free Thought, Revolution, Oppression, Propaganda
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