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Born Red - A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
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Born Red - A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
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Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very
much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the
author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle
schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red
Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic
events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's
father was a county political official who was in and out of
trouble during those years, and the intense interplay between
father and son and the differing perceptions and impact of the
Cultural Revolution for the two generations provide both an unusual
perspective and some extraordinary moving moments. He also makes
deft use of traditional mythology and proverbial wisdom to link,
sometimes ironically, past and present. Gao relates in vivid
fashion how students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies against
'capitalist roader' teachers and administrators, marching them
through the streets to the accompaniment of chants and jeers and
driving some of them to suicide. Eventually the students divided
into two factions, and school and town became armed camps. Gao
tells of the exhilaration that he and his comrades experienced at
their initial victories, of their deepening disillusionment as they
utter defeat as the tumultuous first phase of the Cultural
Revolution came to a close. The portraits of the persons to whom
Gao introduces us - classmates, teachers, family members - gain
weight and density as the story unfolds, so that in the end we see
how they all became victims of the dynamics of a mass movement out
of control.
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