Red Guards

The Unseen Scars: Personal Stories from China’s Cultural Revolution

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The Unseen Scars: Personal Stories from China’s Cultural Revolution

The year is 1966. The air in China crackles with a feverish energy, a potent cocktail of revolutionary zeal and escalating paranoia. Red Guards, young and fiercely devoted, march through the streets, their eyes ablaze with a singular purpose: to purge the remnants of the old world and usher in a new era of Maoist … Read more

The Unseen Scars: Personal Stories from China’s Cultural Revolution

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The Unseen Scars: Personal Stories from China's Cultural Revolution

The air in Beijing, September 1966, crackled not with the crispness of autumn, but with a feverish revolutionary zeal. Red Guards, their arms adorned with crimson armbands, marched with an almost hypnotic fervor, their voices chanting slogans that promised a radical rebirth of China. Amidst this storm, a young art student named Li Wei found … Read more