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The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.Tags
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Fan Shen is a professor of English at Rochester Community and Technical College.
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- Canonical title
- Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
- Important places
- China
- Important events
- Cultural Revolution (1966 | 1976)
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 951.05 — History & geography History of Asia East Asia: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea History 1949- (People's Republic, 20th century)
- LCC
- CT1828 .S46 .A3 — Auxiliary Sciences of History Biography Biography National biography
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
