{"product_id":"born-red-9780804713696","title":"Born Red","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a personal account of the Cultural Revolution. As a student, the author was caught up in dramatic events as, with jeers and chants, students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies. The interplay between the perceptions of father and son offer an additional, unusual, perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eBorn Red\u003c\/i\u003e, Gao Youan, a former Red Guard . . . tells us what it was like to be one of Mao's children in a provincial town four hours by train south of Peking. It is a terrible story, demonstrating that Mao and his crazed coterie were able to cripplee Chinese society for ten years, as well as cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, because they had plenty of help from the masses.\"—\u003ci\u003ePolitics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gao's moving account, which is surprisingly even-handed, viividly captures the pervasive sense of fear and uncertainty that washed over China during the tumultuous period from 1966–1969.\"—\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most detailed account of those difficult years I have read . . . Incredible as the events may seem, they are believable.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gao tells his story well; it rings true with details of family life, stories of Red Guard treks around China, etc. . . . A fine account.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A detailed and fascinating autobiographical account of China's 'Cultural Revolution' . . . Well written.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Although many memoirs of the Cultural Revolution have been published in recent years, \u003ci\u003eBorn Red\u003c\/i\u003e stands out for the immediacy of its portrait of the Red Guards. Without ever abandoning the voice of someone on the edge of childhood, Gao Yuan creates a nuanced and complex picture of the lives of his peers . . . Gao's narrative is powerful, compelling, and deeply disturbing.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Histotical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This latest of a number of personal accounts of the youth involved in the mid-1960s Chinese Cultural Revolution is in many ways the most useful and credible.\"—\u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword William A. Joseph  Preface  1. The hold of history  2. Learning to be red and expert  3. The thirty-six stratagems  4. Hidden messages  5. Ox ghosts and snake spirits  6. Winds and waves  7. The degenerate and the worn shoe  8. The red, the black, and the in-between  9. Smashing the four olds  10. Cleaning our own nest  11. Picking up the pieces  12. Rebels and royalists  13. Going to see the great helmsman  14. Sending off the monsters  15. Defending the mountain devil  16. The carpenter-spy  17. Reply from a socialist-roader  18. On the road  19. Rocks down the well  20. A long march, by hook or crook  21. Spring festival visitors  22. The capless official  23. Smears and skirmishes  24. Spring buds  25. Arrival of the cadets  26. The grand alliance  27. Uncommon laughter  28. Victory fish  29. The first martyr  30. Summons by subterfuge  31. Storming the enemy stronghold  32. Spies in the marketplace  33. Family skeletons  34. Playing with fire  35. The obstinacy of truth  36. On the run  37. From victors to vanquished  38. Living in limbo  39. Class brothers take revenge  40. The radiance of the setting sun  41. Three loyalties and four boundless loves  42. Hostage for a hobby  43. The twelve-force typhoon  44. The irretrievable past  45. The way out  Postscript  Appendixes.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865940406615,"sku":"9780804713696","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804713696.jpg?v=1722276292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/born-red-9780804713696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}