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Quote from Nien Cheng,

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.”



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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:

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Categories:

China, Communism, Insurgence, History, Culture, Free Thought, Revolution, Oppression, Propaganda

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