RED MEMORY: Living, remembering and forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution, by Tania Branigan (Faber, $36.99)
What would people do if all the norms of society were broken? And how would you live with what you had done?
It’s these questions that make China’s Cultural Revolution so fascinating to outsiders, and also lie at the heart of a new book that’s an early contender for book of the year on China.
It was an era, roughly 1966