Confessions of a Red Guard: A Memoir

Unlike other accounts of the Cultural Revolution, novelist Liang Xiaoshengs Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the authors odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of counterrevolutionaries, real and imagined; a sex murder and the culprits 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. See more