Blood red sunset : a memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Ma Bo ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
Blood red sunset : a memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Ma Bo ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
By
:
Ma, Bo.
Publication Date
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1995-1996
Publication Information
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New York : Penguin,
Physical Description
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371 p.
Geographic Term
:
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
Additional Contributors
:
Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
Summary
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In 1968, a fervent young Red Guard joined the army of hotheaded adolescents who trekked to Inner Mongolia to spread the Cultural Revolution. After gaining a reputation as a brutal abuser of the local herd owners and nomads, Ma Bo casually criticized a Party Leader. Denounced as an “active counterrevolutionary” and betrayed by his friends, the idealistic youth was brutally beaten and imprisoned. Charged with passion, never doctrinaire, Blood Red Sunset is a startlingly vivid and personal narrative that opens a window on the psyche of totalitarian excess that no other work of history can provide. This is a tale of ideology and disillusionment, a powerful work of political and literary importance.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780140159424
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Gander (GGR) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 951.056 M11 | Checked In |
Stephenville (WST) (Kindale) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 951.056 M11 | Checked In |