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The Cultural Revolution is still a part of China today

Mao’s tyranny has been erased from the textbooks, but its legacy continues to haunt China’s older generation, say Tania Branigan and Wang Youqin

A Red Army member leads the charge with Mao’s Little Red Book in a propaganda poster from the Cultural Revolution. [Getty Images]
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  • Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution

    Tania Branigan

    Faber, pp. 304, £20

  • Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China’s Tragedy

    Wang Youqin

    Oneworld Academic, pp. 592, £50

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