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“Day and night the city resounded with the loud noise of drums and gongs … looting and the ransacking of private homes … The violence of the Red Guards seemed to have escalated. … Articles in the newspapers … encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism. They were … exhorted to be fearless in their work of toppling the old world and building a new one based on Mao’s teachings.
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:

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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