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CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  8/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 PRC  

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 PRC  

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  7/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 PRC  

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  1/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1967 PRC  

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  2/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 PRC  

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  3/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?  1966 PRC

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  4/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 PRC  

CRUEL, INCOHERENT, UNFORGOTTEN:  5/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 PRC  

PREVIEW: Why did Mao turn on Lin and what did Lin's mysterious death mean to the Red Guards? Tania Branigan:  Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1966 Cultural Revolution

PREVIEW:  RED GUARDS: Author and journalist Tania Branigan reflects why it is that the former Red Guards whom she interviews can reflect after 50 years with sentiment and nostalgia on a time dominated by brutality, incoherence, self-destruction and horror.   Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author)1966 Red Guards signage

Plusieurs millions de morts, des enseignants tués par leurs propres élèves, un dirigeant qui incite la jeunesse à la révolte afin de reprendre le pouvoir, des cadres de l'État forcés à l'exil : la révolution culturelle a été un moment unique de l'histoire chinoise entre 1966 et 1976, qui a profondément marqué le monde entier, mais aussi la Chine actuelle. Un moment de bascule d'une violence inouïe, insufflé par Mao Zedong, et son bras armé, les gardes rouges. Tania Branigan, ancienne correspondante pour le journal britannique The Guardian s'est plongée dans cette décennie de « révolution idéologique ». Dans son livre Fantômes rouges traduit en français chez Stock (2024), elle retrace les vies brisées par cette décennie et interroge l'héritage ambivalent de cette « révolution » dans la Chine de Xi Jinping.  RFI : Bonjour Tania Branigan. Merci d'avoir accepté l'invitation de RFI.    Tania Branigan : Merci beaucoup de m'avoir invité dans l'émission.    Pourquoi avez-vous choisi d'écrire sur ce sujet, la révolution culturelle ?   Je ne pense vraiment pas que j'ai choisi le sujet, je pense plutôt que le sujet m'a choisi. Et cela s'explique par le fait que la révolution culturelle est partout et nulle part en Chine. Ce n'est pas aussi tabou que par exemple la répression contre les mouvements pro-démocratiques place Tiananmen, mais c'est toujours resté un sujet sensible, de plus en plus surveillé. C'est là juste sous la surface, donc on y est forcément confronté.   Dans mon cas, je déjeunais avec une personne que je connaissais et au moment du café, elle a juste commencé à me dire qu'elle allait chercher le corps de son beau-père, abattu durant la révolution culturelle par des gardes rouges. Et ils ont dit que même s'ils avaient réussi à trouver le village où il avait été détenu, des gens qui le connaissaient à l'époque, quand ils ont demandé où ils pouvaient trouver son corps, les villageois étaient complètement déconcertés. Ils ont dit, « vous savez, il y avait tellement de cadavres à cette époque, comment peut-on savoir lequel est le sien ». Et durant mon travail de correspondante en Chine pour The Guardian, j'ai constaté à plusieurs reprises que les histoires sur lesquelles je travaillais n'avaient du sens que si on les plaçait dans le contexte des années 1960, car c'est une période tellement cruciale.  Vous avez rencontré aussi bien des victimes que des gardes rouges. Comment est-ce que vous avez réagi en rencontrant ces personnes âgées, mais qui étaient adolescents quand ils ont commis ou subi ces crimes ?   Je pense que deux éléments sont vraiment essentiels. Tout d'abord, c'est qu'il est très difficile de penser la révolution culturelle en termes de victimes et de coupables. C'est l'une des choses qui rend ce moment aussi inhabituel. De nombreuses personnes étaient à la fois victimes et coupables. Parfois, certains persécutaient les autres, parce qu'ils avaient peur de ce qui pouvait leur arriver à eux-mêmes ou à leur famille. Ou bien, pour les derniers moments de la révolution culturelle, se vengeaient de la façon dont ils avaient été traités. Et du fait de toutes les campagnes politiques, des évolutions, les gens pouvaient vite se retrouver du mauvais côté de l'histoire.Votre récit se construit avec des personnages clé, notamment celui d'un compositeur, M. Wang. Sa vie montre comment les lignes rouges ne cessent d'évoluer. Parfois, ses prises de position lui valent une forte répression, à d'autres moments, elles sont tolérées. Où sont les lignes rouges dans la Chine d'aujourd'hui ?   Dans les années qui ont suivi la révolution culturelle, au fur et à mesure que les choses s'ouvraient, il y avait un bouillonnement intellectuel et créatif extraordinaire. Évidemment, il n'y a jamais eu de liberté totale : le Parti a toujours cherché à contrôler la culture, la pensée intellectuelle. Et c'est de plus en plus le cas ces dernières années, même avant l'arrivée au pouvoir de Xi Jinping, mais très clairement aux alentours de 2011, 2012, quand il a pris la direction du pays, nous avons vu ces sujets être de plus en plus contrôlés.   L'espace pour discuter des idées, pas seulement politiques, mais aussi les idéaux sociaux, la façon dont les gens interagissent, de la culture, est devenu nettement plus restreint en Chine dans la dernière décennie.Certains cadres actuels du parti, dont la famille de Xi Jinping, ont été victimes de la révolution culturelle, ont vu leurs parents être purgés, ont été eux-mêmes envoyés à la campagne. Pourtant, ils continuent à jouer avec le souvenir de ce moment, font allusion à des slogans de l'époque et parlent de cet imaginaire. Qu'est-ce que ce moment évoque pour les jeunes générations ?Je pense que beaucoup de jeunes n'y connaissent pas grand-chose. Mais comme vous le dites, ce qui est intéressant, c'est que les gens au sein du parti, et certainement Xi Jinping, ont été en mesure de s'emparer de cette expérience de la révolution culturelle et d'une partie de la nostalgie qui l'entoure. Et ils ont utilisé ce récit de façon très efficace politiquement. Comme ils ne parlent pas des raisons qui ont entraîné la révolution culturelle ou des victimes, ce qui reste dans le récit collectif, c'est l'histoire de Xi Jinping qui est envoyé à la campagne travailler aux côtés des gens ordinaires, des fermiers, capable de survivre à une période difficile. Et il parle de cela comme le moment où il est devenu un adulte et un homme.   Le récit dominant pour la majorité des Chinois, qui est en partie vrai et assez fondamental, c'est que contrairement à la plupart des dirigeants occidentaux, ici, vous avez un dirigeant qui a travaillé la terre avec des gens ordinaires. Il sait que la vie est dure. Et c'est aussi quelqu'un qui a la puissance d'affronter les moments difficiles. C'est une histoire évidemment très policée, mais qui, je pense, reste tout de même convaincante pour certains.

Plusieurs millions de morts, des enseignants tués par leurs propres élèves, un dirigeant qui incite la jeunesse à la révolte afin de reprendre le pouvoir, des cadres de l'État forcés à l'exil : la révolution culturelle a été un moment unique de l'histoire chinoise entre 1966 et 1976, qui a profondément marqué le monde entier, mais aussi la Chine actuelle. Un moment de bascule d'une violence inouïe, insufflé par Mao Zedong, et son bras armé, les gardes rouges. Tania Branigan, ancienne correspondante pour le journal britannique The Guardian s'est plongée dans cette décennie de « révolution idéologique ». Dans son livre Fantômes rouges traduit en français chez Stock (2024), elle retrace les vies brisées par cette décennie et interroge l'héritage ambivalent de cette « révolution » dans la Chine de Xi Jinping.  RFI : Bonjour Tania Branigan. Merci d'avoir accepté l'invitation de RFI.    Tania Branigan : Merci beaucoup de m'avoir invité dans l'émission.    Pourquoi avez-vous choisi d'écrire sur ce sujet, la révolution culturelle ?   Je ne pense vraiment pas que j'ai choisi le sujet, je pense plutôt que le sujet m'a choisi. Et cela s'explique par le fait que la révolution culturelle est partout et nulle part en Chine. Ce n'est pas aussi tabou que par exemple la répression contre les mouvements pro-démocratiques place Tiananmen, mais c'est toujours resté un sujet sensible, de plus en plus surveillé. C'est là juste sous la surface, donc on y est forcément confronté.   Dans mon cas, je déjeunais avec une personne que je connaissais et au moment du café, elle a juste commencé à me dire qu'elle allait chercher le corps de son beau-père, abattu durant la révolution culturelle par des gardes rouges. Et ils ont dit que même s'ils avaient réussi à trouver le village où il avait été détenu, des gens qui le connaissaient à l'époque, quand ils ont demandé où ils pouvaient trouver son corps, les villageois étaient complètement déconcertés. Ils ont dit, « vous savez, il y avait tellement de cadavres à cette époque, comment peut-on savoir lequel est le sien ». Et durant mon travail de correspondante en Chine pour The Guardian, j'ai constaté à plusieurs reprises que les histoires sur lesquelles je travaillais n'avaient du sens que si on les plaçait dans le contexte des années 1960, car c'est une période tellement cruciale.  Vous avez rencontré aussi bien des victimes que des gardes rouges. Comment est-ce que vous avez réagi en rencontrant ces personnes âgées, mais qui étaient adolescents quand ils ont commis ou subi ces crimes ?   Je pense que deux éléments sont vraiment essentiels. Tout d'abord, c'est qu'il est très difficile de penser la révolution culturelle en termes de victimes et de coupables. C'est l'une des choses qui rend ce moment aussi inhabituel. De nombreuses personnes étaient à la fois victimes et coupables. Parfois, certains persécutaient les autres, parce qu'ils avaient peur de ce qui pouvait leur arriver à eux-mêmes ou à leur famille. Ou bien, pour les derniers moments de la révolution culturelle, se vengeaient de la façon dont ils avaient été traités. Et du fait de toutes les campagnes politiques, des évolutions, les gens pouvaient vite se retrouver du mauvais côté de l'histoire.Votre récit se construit avec des personnages clé, notamment celui d'un compositeur, M. Wang. Sa vie montre comment les lignes rouges ne cessent d'évoluer. Parfois, ses prises de position lui valent une forte répression, à d'autres moments, elles sont tolérées. Où sont les lignes rouges dans la Chine d'aujourd'hui ?   Dans les années qui ont suivi la révolution culturelle, au fur et à mesure que les choses s'ouvraient, il y avait un bouillonnement intellectuel et créatif extraordinaire. Évidemment, il n'y a jamais eu de liberté totale : le Parti a toujours cherché à contrôler la culture, la pensée intellectuelle. Et c'est de plus en plus le cas ces dernières années, même avant l'arrivée au pouvoir de Xi Jinping, mais très clairement aux alentours de 2011, 2012, quand il a pris la direction du pays, nous avons vu ces sujets être de plus en plus contrôlés.   L'espace pour discuter des idées, pas seulement politiques, mais aussi les idéaux sociaux, la façon dont les gens interagissent, de la culture, est devenu nettement plus restreint en Chine dans la dernière décennie.Certains cadres actuels du parti, dont la famille de Xi Jinping, ont été victimes de la révolution culturelle, ont vu leurs parents être purgés, ont été eux-mêmes envoyés à la campagne. Pourtant, ils continuent à jouer avec le souvenir de ce moment, font allusion à des slogans de l'époque et parlent de cet imaginaire. Qu'est-ce que ce moment évoque pour les jeunes générations ?Je pense que beaucoup de jeunes n'y connaissent pas grand-chose. Mais comme vous le dites, ce qui est intéressant, c'est que les gens au sein du parti, et certainement Xi Jinping, ont été en mesure de s'emparer de cette expérience de la révolution culturelle et d'une partie de la nostalgie qui l'entoure. Et ils ont utilisé ce récit de façon très efficace politiquement. Comme ils ne parlent pas des raisons qui ont entraîné la révolution culturelle ou des victimes, ce qui reste dans le récit collectif, c'est l'histoire de Xi Jinping qui est envoyé à la campagne travailler aux côtés des gens ordinaires, des fermiers, capable de survivre à une période difficile. Et il parle de cela comme le moment où il est devenu un adulte et un homme.   Le récit dominant pour la majorité des Chinois, qui est en partie vrai et assez fondamental, c'est que contrairement à la plupart des dirigeants occidentaux, ici, vous avez un dirigeant qui a travaillé la terre avec des gens ordinaires. Il sait que la vie est dure. Et c'est aussi quelqu'un qui a la puissance d'affronter les moments difficiles. C'est une histoire évidemment très policée, mais qui, je pense, reste tout de même convaincante pour certains.

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS."  1/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1967 Mao https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." 2/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) May 24, 1951 US casualty Korean https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." 3/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1955 Kim Il Sung in China https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." 4/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1958 Kim Il Sung  in Beijing https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." 5/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1966 Red Guard https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." 6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1966 Red Guard https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." /78: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1966 Red Guard https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

VPOTUS CANDIDATE TIM WALZ HAS OPINED THAT SOCIALISM IS "NEIGHBORLINESS." 8/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution  by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1971 PRC https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

Today we're talking about 1000xRESIST by sunset visitor 斜陽過客! A game about the human experience and experiencing a collection of dance grooves.Get 1000xRESIST on Steam or Switch! Check out sunset visitor's website! ---Discussed in the episodeThe 1000xRESIST (Original Sountrack) by Drew Redman and Line Katcho on bandcamp越界/粵界 (transgression/cantosphere) by Hong Kong Exile (Natalie Gan, Milton Lim, Remy Siu) in collaboration with Zoe Lam and Howie TsuiNothing Ever Stops Existing by Jacob Geller on YouTubeHow Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising by Tania Branigan and Lily Kuo for The Guardiansunset visitor's Remy Siu on 1000xRESIST, protest, game design, and more by Karan Pradhan for The Qun on SubstackWhat Should You Leave Behind? - 1000xRESIST Review by Matt Horton on YouTubeDepression and post-traumatic stress during major social unrest in Hong Kong: a 10-year prospective cohort study by Ni, Yao, Leung, Yau, Leung, Lun, et al. on The LancetTouched Out by Amanda MonteiOther links1000xRESIST - The Backpack Can't Fit Everything by kiwi on cohost1000xRESIST Dev Remy Siu On Dark Humour And Games As Art | Developer Interview by Gaming In The Wild on YouTubeA great collection of drawings by Maarika on Twitter1000xRESIST is a game for a post-2019 Hong Kong protest generation of diaspora children that doesn't exist yet by kastelpls on cohost---Visit our website!Support the show on Kofi!Follow us on Twitch!Follow the show on Bluesky!Check out The Worst Garbage Online!---Art by Tara CrawfordMusic by _amaranthineAdditional sounds by BoqehProduced and edited by AJ Fillari---Timecodes:(00:00) - The Orchard -In Motion- by Drew Redman (00:59) - Big game in a big package (02:27) - What is 1000xRESIST? (04:33) - Who is sunset visitor 斜陽過客? (12:21) - A totally accurate runtime prediction (12:48) - HEY PLEASE DON'T SPOIL THIS GAME FOR YOURSELF (13:46) - There is a Then by Line Katcho (14:00) - A quick recap of the history of Hong Kong (26:10) - Watcher by Drew Redman (26:38) - Welcome to dotxZIP | SPOILERS (27:35) - Day of the Dance by Drew Redman (27:53) - Chapter 1 | FULL SPOILERS (42:55) - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HOP OFF NOW SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (43:10) - Chapter 1 Communion | FULL SPOILERS (58:44) - The Orchard -At Peace- by Drew Redman (59:20) - Chapter 2 Orchard | FULL SPOILERS (01:10:13) - Chapter 2 Communion | FULL SPOILERS (01:19:18) - Kim starts beating a drum | FULL SPOILERS (01:28:46) - Chapter 2 Zips | FULL SPOILERS (01:37:08) - Chapter 3 Orchard | FULL SPOILERS (01:41:38) - Chapter 3 Communion | FULL SPOILERS (01:56:49) - Chapter 4 Orchard | FULL SPOILERS (02:01:50) - Chapter 4 Communion | FULL SPOILERS (02:14:56) - The Occupants by Line Katcho (02:15:35) - Chapter 5 Orchard | FULL SPOILERS (02:18:50) - Chapter 5 Communion | FULL SPOILERS (02:20:50) - Chapter 6 | FULL SPOILERS (02:47:01) - Tear Gas by Line Katcho (02:47:40) - Chapter 7 | FULL SPOILERS (03:28:23) - Chapter 8 | FULL SPOILERS (03:41:12) - Stuck on the Tracks by Drew Redman (03:41:54) - Chapter 9 | FULL SPOILERS (03:53:44) - The Plan by Line Katcho (03:54:08) - Chapter X Orchard | FULL SPOILERS (03:58:47) - Chapter X Communion | FULL SPOILERS (04:11:45) - Impossible Conversations | FULL SPOILERS (04:19:55) - A Future Worthwhile | FULL SPOILERS (04:30:57) - Epilogue | FULL SPOILERS (04:35:47) - The Orchard -At Rest- by Drew Redman (04:36:25) - 1000xQUESTIONS (04:36:47) - From Lex: 1000xALLEGORY (04:43:48) - From Matt: 1000xNPC (04:44:09) - From Emily: 1000xCOO (04:45:47) - From Emily: 1000xDESIRE (04:52:40) - From Pepsi Nahobino: 1000xCYCLES (04:55:44) - From Matt: 1000xLESBIAN (04:55:57) - From Lou: 1000xGENDERxOTHERSxSEQUEL (04:58:51) - From Rob: 1000xADJECTIVE (05:00:05) - Hekki grace, listener  

The Cultural Revolution is everywhere felt in China today, but rarely if ever talked about openly. But prize-winning historian Tania Branigan tries to fill in the historical silences with voices both past and present in her book, Red Memory.

Tania Branigan spent seven years as The Guardians China correspondent and was stationed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution - where at least two million people died.

Join us for the latest episode of The Read Smart podcast, where host Razia Iqbal speaks to Isabel Hilton, 2024 Chair of Judges and founder of China Dialogue and Tania Branigan, The Guardian's foreign leader writer. Together, Razia and our guests discuss the complex cultural legacy of China, alongside the opportunities and challenges the country has encountered and continues to face. Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Despite pressure from some Conservative MPs, the government stopped short of defining China as an official threat this week. How deep does Chinese interference in the UK go? John Harris speaks to the Guardian's foreign leader writer Tania Branigan and deputy political editor, Peter Walker. As MPs break for Easter, they also discuss the state of the Conservative and Labour parties. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 2/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Cultural Revolution

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 3/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Cultural Revolution

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 4/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Red Guards

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 5/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Red Guards

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 7/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966

XI IS THE RED GUARD PLUS TIKTOK: 8/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Cultural Revolution: the torturers

PREVIEW: #CULTURAL REVOLUTION:  Another excerpt from conversation with author Tania Branigan re her new book, RED MEMORY re the Red Guard survivors in the 21st Century, living out their lives with sentimental reflections of their cruel conduct. More later. 1966 Red Guards and fearful citizens

PREVIEW: #REDGUARDS: #MAOISM: Excerpt from conversation with author Tania Branigan re her new book, RED MEMORY, re the Red Guard teenaged marauders of 19666-1976 -- an attempt to understand how child soldiers like the Red Guard could be manipulated into sadism toward strangers and even their own families.  More later.   1966 Cultural Revolution

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was launched by Chairman Mao in 1966 and lasted a whole decade until his death. It aimed to purify China of perceived bourgeois elements and reinforce hardline communist ideology. The era left a huge impact on China's socio-political landscape, but despite its seismic impact, it's not that well understood by many Westerners. Today, I'm speaking with Tania Branigan. Tania spent 7 years as the Guardian's China correspondent, and is also the author of a recent non-fiction book called Red Memory, which explores stories that have emerged about the Cultural Revolution and its lingering impact on contemporary China. I read and reviewed it earlier this year, and I was absolutely blown away.  In this episode, Tania and I go deep into her book, Red Memory, the process she went through in writing and researching the text. For those of you who don't know all that much about the Cultural Revolution, don't panic – Tania does an incredible job of covering the basics while also getting into the intricacies of the relevant political history. I thoroughly recommend the book for anyone looking to improve their knowledge of China, especially how this contemporary society is still haunted by many ghosts of the Cultural Revolution. Tania mentioned Sparks, by Ian Johnson (2023), a work of non-fiction which follows “counter-historians” documenting contemporary China. Her favourite book that I'd never heard of was The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (1994), a dystopian tale in which a totalitarian regime controls collective memory. Also by that author was The Housekeeper and The Professor, by Yōko Ogawa (2003), which follows an ageing mathematician whose memory is limited to 80 minutes. The best book she has read in the last twelve months was Waiting to be Arrested at Night, by Tahir Hamut Izgil (2023), which is a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide of the majority-Muslim population in Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China. This also reminded her of another favourite with similar undertones, The Appointment, by the Romanian author Herta Müller (1997), which follows the life of a young woman living under a communist regime. The book she would take to a desert island is the collected short stories of Anton Chekhov. On that note, she also mentioned the fantastic book A Swim in The Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (2021), in which the author, a master short story writer, examines four classic Russian short stories, including one by Chekhov. Finally, a book that changed her mind was Heidi Larson's Stuck (2020), which explores vaccine rumours, and how best to deal with people who have different opinions on that subject.

Na estante desta semana, há um volume da Septologia do Nobel Jon Fosse; as “7 Regras para a vida”, de Arnold Schwarzenegger; a “Memória Vermelha” em que Tania Branigan conta o que foi a Revolução Cultural chinesa; e uma “Apologia dos Ociosos e outros ensaios”, em que o já clássico Robert Luís Stevenson nos explica porque não faz bem nenhum matarmo-nos a trabalhar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 CULURAL REVOLUTION

6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?1966

5/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 CULTURAL REVOLUTION

8/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1967

3/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 CHINA

2/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?1966 CULTURAL REVOLUTION

1/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?1966 MAO AND THE RED GUARDS

7/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1968 RED GUARDS

PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation later in the show with author and journalist Tania Branigan about the fraught memory of a woman in her sixties about her teenaged rampage in 1966 with the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution -- a fever that haunts the country though it is not remembered in the museums and histories. Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) 1966 Red Guards in Beijing .

PREVIEW: Again from a conversation later in the show, author and journalist Tania Branigan reflects why it is that the former Red Guards whom she interviews can reflect after 50 years with sentiment and nostalgia on a time dominated by brutality, incoherence, self-destruction and horror.   Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author)

Cultural revolution memories, European resistance in occupied Poland and France and early attempts to establish trade with Mughal leaders in India are the topics explored in prize winning history books. Rana Mitter talks to authors Tania Branigan, Halik Kochanski and Nandini Das about digging in the archives and seeking out interviewees to help shape our understanding of these different periods in world history. Plus prize winning science books by John Vaillant, who considers the incredible power of fire as it consumes a city in Alberta built on the extraction of fossil fuels, and Ed Yong who reveals the extrodinary range of senses which humans don't have, but other animals do, from navigating using smell to the ability to detect electromagnetic waves.Tania Branigan is the 2023 winner of the Cundill History Prize for Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution Nandini Das is the 2023 winner of the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire Halik Kochanski won the Wolfson History Prize 2023 with her book Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939–1945 John Vaillant won the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for non fiction for his book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World Ed Yong was the winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsProducer: Julian SiddleYou can hear more from Nandini Das talking to Rana alongside Peter Frankopan, author of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History in a Free Thinking episode called Climate change and empire building You can hear more from Halik Kolchanski in the interviews Rana recorded with all six finalists for the 2023 Wolfson prize

For the second instalment of Intelligence Squared's Holiday Reads selection looking back at some of the best books of the year, Conor Boyle and Feyi Adegbite revisit conversations with authors including journalist Tania Branigan, whose book, Red Memory, tells the story of China's cultural revolution. Plus, writer Tomiwa Owolade discusses his book, This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter, and classicist Mary Beard along with politician and podcaster Rory Stewart talk about their respective titles, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, and Politics on the Edge. You can also find all of their books and a few more in Intelligence Squared's Twelve Books of Christmas list. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/the-blog/?p=the-twelve-books-of-christmas ... If you'd like to get access to all of our longer form interviews and members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events - Our member-only newsletter The Monthly Read, sent straight to your inbox ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series ... Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more ... Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tune into this special shortlist edition of the Read Smart podcast, where Toby Mundy speaks to #BGPrize2023 shortlisted author Tania Branigan about her book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan's book explores and uncovers forty years of rarely heard stories surrounding this Cultural Revolution, begging the question: what happens to the present when the past is repressed and buried? Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. The winner will be announced on Thursday 16 November at an award ceremony at the Science Museum, generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The announcement will also be livestreamed across the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction social channels.

Georgina Godwin sits down with the six authors shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2023: Hannah Barnes, Tania Branigan, Christopher Clark, Jeremy Eichler, Jennifer Homans and John Vaillant. From Branigan's new look into China's Cultural Revolution, told through the personal stories of those who lived through it, to Vaillant's deep dive into the relationship between oil history and climate science, this year's shortlist presents a variety of bold, original and thought-provoking works. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The exponential trauma produced by the Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in China, yet has been foundational to a generation.  Now the Communist Party is using the experience of its leader Xi Jinping as one of the 17 million young people sent down to the countryside to reframe the movement as showcasing personal sacrifice in the interests of national success.  The party would like other aspects to be forgotten, such as the unimaginable violence in Chongqing or the petty brutality that set children onto their parents.  In the second part of our series on history and memory, Louisa and Graeme discuss the legacies of the Cultural Revolution with sociologist Xu Bin from Emory University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the author of Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China and Guardian journalist Tania Branigan whose book Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution came out in May. Show transcript: https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/bombard-the-past-exhuming-the-cultural-revolution/ Image: Red Guard, June 1968. c/- Wikimedia Commons and China Pictorial  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the decade between 1966 and 1976, Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution wreaked immense havoc on China – with up to 2 million killed, and another 36 million persecuted for perceived political or cultural sins. Tania Branigan is the author of a Cundill Prize-shortlisted book Red Memory, which draws on personal testimonies to chart the story of this terrifying decade. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, she discusses why the Cultural Revolution was such a significant moment in Chinese history and explores its continued impact on the country's politics, culture and psyche today. (Ad) Tania Branigan is the author of Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution (Faber & Faber, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Memory-Remembering-Forgetting-Revolution/dp/1783352647/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

5/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1968 Cultural Revolution

6/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Beijing

7/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? 1966 Red Guard

8/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

PREVIEW: Why did Mao turn on Lin and what did Lin's mysterious death mean to the Red Guards? Tania Branigan:  Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) Photo: 1966 Red Guards

2/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? Photo:  1966 Cultural Revolution No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow

4/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? Photo:  1966 Cultural Revolution No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow

3/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? Photo:  1966 Cultural Revolution Tibet No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow

#TONIGHT: The show begins in Maui, searching for the still unaccounted for, and ranges to the Reagan/Kennedy debate in May, 1967, then to Las Vegas for the Convention count as a measure of the national economy.  From Beijing to Turin to Ingenuity on Mars.  And a dialogue with Tania Branigan on her new book on the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution that brutalized China. Photo:  1947 Ringling Brothers comes to Allentown, PA. No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow

1/8: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? Photo:  1966 Cultural Revolution No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow

#PREVIEW: The homicidal rage of the teenaged Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution recalled painfully by one of participants more than five decades later. Tania Branigan. Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Hardcover – May 9, 2023 by  Tania Branigan  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Memory-Afterlives-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1324051957 Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over? Photo:  1966 Cultural Revolution No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow , 

Guardian newspaper editorial writer and former China correspondent Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory," talks about China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), during which millions of Chinese were killed and tens of millions were persecuted by the Chinese government for being enemies of the state. In the book, Ms. Branigan profiles several people who were targeted during this period and discusses the lasting impact of the Cultural Revolution in China today.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guardian newspaper editorial writer and former China correspondent Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory," talks about China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), during which millions of Chinese were killed and tens of millions were persecuted by the Chinese government for being enemies of the state. In the book, Ms. Branigan profiles several people who were targeted during this period and discusses the lasting impact of the Cultural Revolution in China today.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Den som får inblick kan utveckla djupare förståelse för ett främmande samhällssystem, men inte nödvändigtvis sympati. Ola Wong skriver om kommunistpartiets chefsideologs resa till USA och två aktuella böcker från de tidigare Kina-korrespondenterna Hanna Sahlberg och Tania Branigan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mao's Cultural Revolution pitted children against their parents and tore at the fabric of China's society. It's vital to the understanding of China today, says Red Memory author Tania Branigan. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Tania Branigan is a Guardian foreign leader writer. Having spent seven years as the Guardian's China correspondent, she has also written for the Washington Post and The Australian. Her first book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Culture Revolution, explores how the revolution has shaped China today, and uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

By the early 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong's campaign to modernise Communist China had ended in disaster. Known as the Great Leap Forward, it resulted in turmoil on such a scale that many had begun to question Mao's authority. In response, he set out to claim absolute political supremacy by launching a grassroots movement called the Cultural Revolution. A decade of terror ensued that would permanently alter the fabric of Chinese society, and result in the deaths of up to 2 million people. But what exactly happened during this decade of madness, and what can we learn from those who lived through it? Dan is joined by Tania Branigan, author of Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution, to explore the Cultural Revolution and how it has shaped China today.Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe to History Hit today!Download the History Hit app from the Google Play store.Download the History Hit app from the Apple Store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trigger warning: This episode briefly mentions suicide at 01:15 and 15:45. This week host Lijia Zhang speaks to Tania Branigan, current Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. In this episode, they discuss her new book Red Memory, about the Cultural Revolution, and more importantly about the suppression of memories, and how a society comes to terms with a tragedy deeply rooted in its psyche.In the course of writing the book, Tania spoke to people who were affected by this tumultuous decade in various ways. People like Zhang Hongbin, a man who denounced his own mother at the age of seventeen and is reckoning with this fact decades later, trying to make amends for what he has done.Tania points out that Xi has begun dismantling the protections that were put in place after the Cultural Revolution and the parallels between that period and Xi's rising cult of personality. This is a riveting conversation about memory, intergeneraional  trauma, betrayal, mob mentality, and a deep look into what we are all capable of as human beings. (Red Memory was released in the UK on February 2nd, 2023. The US edition's release date is May 9th, 2023.) About Tania Branigan: Tania is the Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. Her writing has also appeared in The Australian and The Washington Post. Red Memory is her first book. 

When journalists write books, how do they balance the potentially tricky relationship between weaving a compelling narrative and sticking to the facts? What's the role of storytelling in reportage? And what are the ethics of reporting on other peoples' lived experiences? This month our guest is Tania Branigan, foreign leader writer at The Guardian and author of Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Tania was a correspondent in China for seven years, and Red Memory is about the Cultural Revolution, a decade of upheaval, purging and torture that began under Chairman Mao in 1966. Crucially, it's also about the act of both remembering and forgetting this period, and the role the Chinese government and people have played in that process. Listen in for our chat with Tania, an exploration of journalism in literature and all the usual recommendations. Recommendations on the theme, Journalism: Octavia: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Carrie: The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean General recommendations: Octavia: Archaeology of Loss by Sarah Tarlow Tania: The Soviet Century, archaeology of a lost world by Karl Schlogel Carrie: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/feb-2023-journalism-with-tania-branigan Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction

How do memories of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution shape modern China? And why does Xi Jinping seek to control the ways people remember? Tania Branigan—a Guardian leader writer and author of Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution—and Isabel Hilton, who is a contributing editor at Prospect and founder of China Dialogue, join Ellen Halliday to discuss China's relationship with its own history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During China's Cultural Revolution, pupils murdered their teachers, children betrayed their parents and society was torn apart in the name of progress. Decades on, it inspires both horror and nostalgia — but is rarely mentioned in public. Tania Branigan, author of Red Memory, tells Ros Taylor how China's citizens deal with the Revolution's violent legacy – and what it can teach us about China today.  “There was a kind of idealism there, the inevitable joy and excitement that young people would feel in an upheaval of that kind”.  “Many people in China regard the Cultural Revolution with a certain nostalgia, a time when people were somehow purer and there was more meaning.” “I certainly don't know how I would have behaved if I lived through that era, and I don't think many of us can.”  www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer Jet Gerbertson. Assistant producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor Andrew Harrison.  THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Georgina Godwin speaks to The Guardian's foreign leader writer and former China correspondent Tania Branigan about her new book, ‘Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution'.

Mina Anwar and Les Dennis discuss their new production of Spring and Port Wine at the Bolton Octagon. They explain why the 1960s classic play about a family in Bolton, and tensions between the generations, still has resonance today. Writer Tania Branigan talks about her new book Red Memory. Based on her research as a journalist in China, it tells the story of the Cultural Revolution through the memories of individuals including a composer, an artist and a man who denounced his own mother. It's nearly 40 years since Barbra Streisand's film Yentl was released. Based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, it follows a young woman who lives as a man so that she can study the bible. Kerry Shale, who had a part in Streisand's film, discusses returning to Singer's story to adapt it for a new Radio 4 drama, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Olivia Skinner Image Credit: Pamela Raith Photography

In this episode the Guardian journalist Tania Branigan takes us back to the opening phases of the ‘Cultural Revolution', Mao Zedong's attempt to purge Chinese society of its impurities. Over the course of a few fraught months in the summer of 1966, the transformational movement that would last for a decade, begun. *** In Britain 1966 is remembered as a glittering year. It was the year of the World Cup, of Pet Sounds, Revolver and Andy Warhol. But as Western culture flowered, far away in China something very different was happening. All these years on, today's guest, Tania Branigan points out, the Cultural Revolution remains a difficult event to properly comprehend. It moved through different stages. It was riven by contradictions. Its range was vast, touching people from all parts of society, from top to bottom, east to west. And yet at the heart of much of the action lay the figure of Mao Zedong. By the mid-1960s Mao was regarded as an aging figure. Despite his glorious revolutionary past, it was not certain just what his future would be. But during the spring and summer of 1966 it became increasingly clear that Mao's political ambitions were not at an end. Tania Branigan is the author of Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution, which has recently been released by Faber. For more, as ever, visit our website: tttpodcast.com. Show notes Scene One: April 16-24. Politburo standing committee (ie China's top political body) meets in Hangzhou. Scene Two: 16 July. Chairman Mao swims the Yangtze near Wuhan. Scene Three: 18 August. Song Binbin pins the red armband on Mao in Tiananmen Square. Memento: The first big character poster, painted in Beijing, that set off the Cultural Revolution. People/Social Presenter: Peter Moore Guest: Tania Branigan Production: Maria Nolan Podcast partner: Ace Cultural Tours Follow us on Twitter: @tttpodcast_ See where 1966 fits on our Timeline

Tania Branigan joins us to talk about her new book "Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution" Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhackTips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhackBuy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhackMerch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the reporter Tania Branigan, whose experience as a correspondent in China led her to believe that the trauma of the Cultural Revolution was the story behind the story that made sense of modern China. In her new book Red Memory: Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution, she explores how the memory of that bloody decade, and the drive to forget or ignore it, shapes the high politics and daily lives of the Chinese nation. She tells me why official amnesia on the subject is a surprisingly recent development, how 1989's Tiananmen Square protests changed the course of the country, and why so many ordinary Chinese people still, extraordinarily, pine for the days of Mao.

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the reporter Tania Branigan, whose experience as a correspondent in China led her to believe that the trauma of the Cultural Revolution was the story behind the story that made sense of modern China. In her new book Red Memory: Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution, she explores how the memory of that bloody decade, and the drive to forget or ignore it, shapes the high politics and daily lives of the Chinese nation. She tells me why official amnesia on the subject is a surprisingly recent development, how 1989's Tiananmen Square protests changed the course of the country, and why so many ordinary Chinese people still, extraordinarily, pine for the days of Mao.    

Having spent much of the last three years with some of the world's most strict Covid restrictions, China's relaxing of its rules has coincided with a massive wave of infections just as the country prepares to celebrate the lunar new year. Tania Branigan reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

China has been rocked by an outpouring of communal anger at the government's restrictive zero-Covid lockdown policies. Could the protests develop into something more substantial? Tania Branigan reports

Nurses, rail staff and royal mail workers are expected to strike this winter. Will Rishi Sunak's ‘Operation Get Tough' have any impact? And as protests continue to rage in China, the PM used the lavish Lord Mayor's Banquet earlier this week to announce the ‘golden era' of relations with China is over. The Guardian's John Harris is joined by Rafael Behr and Zoe Williams, and will be speaking on China to the Guardian's former China correspondent Tania Branigan. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

China has been rocked by an outpouring of communal anger at the government's restrictive ‘zero Covid' lockdown policies. Could the protests develop into something more substantial? Tania Branigan reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

They're long-time strategic partners, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is testing the strength of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping's relationship, Guardian leader writer Tania Branigan explains

They're longtime strategic partners but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is testing the strength of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping's relationship, Tania Branigan explains. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

China and the UK have clashed in recent months over a draconian new security law in Hong Kong and the Chinese tech company Huawei. The Guardian’s Tania Branigan examines whether a much-promoted ‘golden era’ between the two countries is at an end. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

One woman and six new-born babies die during pregnancy or childbirth every two hours in Yemen according to UNICEF statistics released recently. The organisation says this is a direct result of the conflict there. We hear from Malak Hasan, an advocacy and policy worker for UNICEF and Yemeni-born Mai Noman, Digital Content Editor for the BBC's Arabic service.Sex therapist Dr Ruth K Westheimer joins us to talk about a working life giving sex advice, and her recent 91st birthday celebrations. Dr Ruth became famous in the 1980s and 1990s with her frank advice about sex on radio and television. Born and brought up in Germany - she lost both her parents in the holocaust. She settled in America, writing and broadcasting about sex. She's the subject of a new documentary ‘Ask Dr Ruth' and was in the UK to take part in a debate at the Oxford union on pornography. We profile Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam, the city's first female leader, elected in 2017. Roughly two million people marched in Hong Kong on Sunday, demanding her resignation, even though she'd announced she'd pull back from a bitterly unpopular law that that would allow extraditions to mainland China. Tania Branigan, Guardian foreign leader writer and BBC's Helier Cheung join Jane.Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Jane Thurlow

As tensions continue to mount on the Korean peninsula, is now the right time for the BBC to be launching a new radio service aimed at North Koreans? Jamie Angus is Deputy Director of the BBC World Service Group, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri is Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Tania Branigan is The Guardian's foreign leader writer. Oliver Cummins Hylton is the winner of the first Steve Hewlett Bursary, an initiative founded in Steve's memory by The Royal Television Society, The Media Society and his friends and family. There is speculation that Amazon could be preparing a bid for Premier League broadcast rights. But seasoned media analyst Mathew Horsman of Mediatique thinks the scenario is highly unlikely. Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Richard Hooper Assistant producer: Tim Allen.

Is the "Western media" biased in its reporting about China? What are the frames and narratives that inform the Anglophone media's understanding of the county, and what are the misunderstandings about the "Western media" that lead Chinese people into believing Western reporting is more biased than it is? This week, Tania Branigan from the Guardian, Jeremy Goldkorn from Danwei and serial China entrepreneur Bill Bishop join host Kaiser Kuo in a discussion of this perennial topic. And lest you mistakenly believe that it's only the Western media writing critical stories on China, we discuss the state of investigative reporting in China, focusing on a recent piece by Tania in The Guardian about China's best-known investigative journalist, Wang Keqin.

On April 15, 2010, on the 21st anniversary of former Party Secretary Hu Yaobang’s death, Premier Wen Jiabao published an essay to eulogize his former mentor in the People’s Daily. On April 15, 1989, the death of this foreign-minded general secretary of the Communist Party famously touched off the student demonstration of that year. It is a highly-emotional essay, which recalls a trip he took to Guizhou in 1986 with Hu Yaobang, a good friend of his that he worked with and admired. He particularly emphasizes Hu’s qualities, especially the populist rhetoric that he learned and now applies. In today's episode, we first visit this speech and ask what it really tells us about the political landscape in China. Does it telegraph an ongoing rift between a “populist” faction headed by Wen Jiabao, Hu Jintao, and Li Keqiang and a competing “princeling” elite represented by Xi Jinping? Early in the morning of April 14th, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake leveled roughly 90 percent of the buildings in Yushu County in southern Qinghai Province. So far more than 2000 people are now reported dead, and practically the entire population of the affected area is living in tents or in temporary housing. Qinghai, and particularly this area of Qinghai, is heavily Tibetan. This dimension of the quake as well as Beijing’s handling of the rescue have become part of the focus of the story. Is the ethnic dimension of the rescue overplayed by Western media? Do encounters between Tibetan monks and Chinese government officials demonstrate tension or a successful relationship? How does the government’s ability to deliver disaster relief relate to the historical concept of the Mandate of the Heaven? Joining Kaiser Kuo this week are Gady Epstein, Beijing bureau chief for Forbes magazine and Guardian correspondent Tania Branigan, fresh back in Beijing after a reporting trip to the remote earthquake region and with a first-hand account of the rescue efforts there. We're also joined by Jeremiah Jenne, Dean of Chinese Studies at the IES program in Beijing, who helps put both events in historical perspective. You may know Jeremiah as Qing historian and author of the blog Jottings from the Granite Studio. References: Returning to Xingyi, Remembering Hu Yaobang, by Wen Jiabao After Quake, Tibetans Distrust China’s Help, by Andrew Jacobs Robert Barnett on the Qinghai Earthquake, by the China Beat

In this inaugural episode, Kaiser, Jeremy, and Bill Bishop sit down to discuss the landscape surrounding Google’s pullout in China. They seek to answer: What exactly happened earlier this week with Google's inaccessibility? Does Yasheng Huang have the right take on their pull-out of China, or is Tania Branigan from the Guardian more on the money? What are the consequences for Google's future in Asia, and what does any of this mean to the average Chinese user? The song used in the show is an excerpt from “The Huntsman” (猎人 lièrén) from Chunqiu’s (春秋 chūnqiū; Spring and Autumn) first and eponymous album. Both song and album are available on iTunes. Bill Bishop is among the most recognizable China-watchers in the business. His long-running Sinocism newsletter is an essential resource for serious followers of China policy, and he is regularly quoted in a variety of major news outlets reporting on China.

International development secretary Hilary Benn talks to Oliver King and Tania Branigan about the government's white paper on development.