A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution
by Gao Yuan
Recommended by Paul Graham
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 19661969, 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 rec...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
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