Son of the Revolution
Recommended by Elizabeth Perry, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #70 in Chinese History
An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution. less
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Elizabeth Perry This book really is a very easy read. It’s a memoir of Liang Heng who himself had been a rather young Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. And what I like about this book is that it gives a first-hand understanding of why Chinese during the Cultural Revolution did the things they did. We now look back on that period of the 1960s and say, ‘Oh, all of China went crazy, there was this large cult of personality, Chairman Mao manipulated everyone to do this, that, and the other.’ (Source)
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