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Article: The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution.
- Article from:
- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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By Chihua Wen. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995. 168 pp. Hardbound, $53.00; Softbound, $15.95.
The year 1996 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution and the twentieth anniversary of its end. Despite cross-disciplinary interest in the subject, and the survival of many people who both lived through the Cultural Revolution and are willing to talk about their experiences, our understanding of the events of these ten years is, if anything, becoming increasingly obscured. The Chinese government's official ideology of "looking forward" (chaoqiankan: chao=towards, qian= forward, kan=looking) -- which was later parodied by the ...