China should be a reporter's dream: more than one billion people, a rich history, and extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity. And yet China-reporting these days resists the profile. Rarely do ...

One evening in 1970, a woman named Fang Zhongmou reached the end of her patience with the Cultural Revolution. She had put up with the torture and beating of her husband by adolescent Red Guards for ...

In Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution, Tania Branigan undertakes the task of documenting one of China’s most turbulent and devastating periods, the Cultural Revolution. Relying ...

Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live... China should be a reporter's dream: more than one ...

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