born red a chronicle of the cultural revolution

Very good xxxii, [2], 380, [2] pages. Includes Foreword by William A. Joseph, and Preface. Topics covered include The Hold of History; Learning to Be Red and Expert; The Thirty-Six Stratagems; Hidden Messages; Ox Ghost and Snake Spirits; Winds and Waves; The Degenerate and the Worn Shoe; The Red, the Black, and the In-Between; Smashing the Four Olds; Cleaning Our Own Nest; Picking Up the Pieces; Rebels and Royalists; Going to See the Great Helmsman; Sending Off the Monsters; Defending the Mountain Devil; The Carpenter-Spy; Reply from a Socialist-Roader; On the Road; Rocks Down the Well; A Long March, by Hook or Crook; Spring Festival Visitors; The Capless Official; Smears and Skirmishes; Spring Buds; Arrival of the Cadets; The Grand Alliance; Uncommon Laughter; Victory Fish; The First Martyr; Summons by Subterfuge; Storming the Enemy Stronghold; Spies in the Marketplace; Family Skeletons; Playing with Fire; The Obstinacy of Truth; On the Run; From Victors to Vanquished; Living in Limbo; Class Brothers Take Revenge; The Radiance of the Setting Sun; Three Loyalties and Four Boundless Loves; Hostage for a Hobby; The Twelve-Force Typhoon; The Irretrievable Past; The Way Out; Postscript. Also includes Biographical Notes and Glossary. Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience of the years 1966-69. Gao relates how students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies against "capitalist-roader' teachers and administrators, marching them through the streets and driving some of them to suicide. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution is an autobiography of Gao Yuan (born 1952) and his recollection of experiences during the Cultural Revolution in China. The foreword was written by William Joseph. At the time Gao Yuan was a post-graduate student at Stanford University. Stanley Rosen of the Journal of Asian Studies said that the book was aimed at audiences broader than just specialists in China. Rosen said that the book "

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