Confessions of a Red Guard: A Memoir

By Liang Xiaosheng

Book Overview

Unlike other accounts of the Cultural Revolution, novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author's odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of "counterrevolutionaries," real and imagined; a sex murder and the culprit's execution; a budding romance in a most unlikely place; stolen pleasures with forbidden books; the ecstasies and personal sacrifices surrounding a glimpse of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Square; and a host of small ironies of life during a revolutionary movement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937385787
• ISBN13: 9781937385781
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Merwinasia
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"