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The Unceasing Storm - Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
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Just over fifty years ago, China's Cultural Revolution began. The
movement was intended to bring about a return to revolutionary
Maoist beliefs and resulted in attacks on intellectuals and those
believed to be counter-revolutionaries, capitalists and rightists;
a large-scale purge in government posts; the appearance of a
personality cult around Mao Zedong; and an estimated death count of
between one and three million. When Katherine Luo moved from Hong
Kong to mainland China in 1955 to study drama and opera, she hoped
her ideals and patriotism might help to build her country. Like
many citizens, she loved the motherland and admired its
revolutionary leaders. After years of completely trusting the
regime, rationalizing its decisions and betrayals, and criticizing
herself for doubting the Party, she realized that no matter how
much she loved China, it would never love her back because she had
the wrong background-capitalist class origins and overseas
connections. The Unceasing Storm describes Luo's personal
struggles-among other things, she was expelled from university,
forbidden to marry her first love, and accused of being a spy-but
it is also the memoir of a generation, representative of similar
incidents occurring all over China. Luo's colleagues and famous
artists were dogged by their backgrounds-the unluckiest in the "to
be executed, imprisoned or placed under surveillance" category;
family members and teachers were labelled rightists; friends and
war heroes were imprisoned; careers were ruined, families
separated, ordinary people lifted to power one morning and
destroyed overnight. Some of those with stories to tell perished,
of those who lived, many prefer to forget, and others burned all
written records to avoid being incriminated. When the people
involved in the revolution have all died, it will be all too easy
to forget or pretend it never happened. The Unceasing Storm is one
step towards creating a truthful record of contemporary China.
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