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“after unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them. ”
These words leaped out at me yesterday while rereading an old copy of Nien Cheng’s classic “Life and Death in Shanghai.”
|  By: |  Nien Cheng (more quotes by Nien Cheng or books by/about 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 | 
|  ISBN-10: |  0802145167 | 
|  Amazon Img URL: |  https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511-HeJGHlL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg | 
|  Categories: |  China, Communism, Insurgence, History, Culture, Free Thought, Revolution, Oppression, Propaganda | 
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