The China Journal, July 1st, 2005
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard, by Fan Shen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xiv + 279 pp. US$24.95 (hardcover).
Memoirs by former Red Guards have been appearing in the West since the early 1970s, when volumes by "Ken Ling" (The Revenge of Heaven: Journal of a Young Chinese [1971 ]) and "Dai Hsiao-ai" (Red Guard: The Political Biography of Dai Hsiao-ai, edited by Gordon Bennett and Ronald Montaperto [1972 ]) presented the first eyewitness accounts of the chaotic years of the Cultural Revolution, from the formation of the Red Guards in 1966 to their demobilization in 1968. Ma...
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