In the summer of 1967, a group of middle-school students, daughters of high-ranking officials in Beijing, forced their headmistress to crawl through a cement pipe and then beat her to death as she emerged. “These teenage girls,” wrote Yue Daiyun in To the Storm, her 1985 memoir of the Cultural Revolution, “ordinarily shy, mild, and gentle, had somehow become (...)
February 23, 2007
Books
The Chairman's Willing Subjects
Mao’s Last RevolutionRoderick MacFarquhar and Michael SchoenhalsBelknap/Harvard University Press, $35, 752 pp.
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