"[A]fter unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them."
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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'
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Life and Death in Shanghai, 1987
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