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The quiet revolution

slew of fine autobiographies have been published recently about growing up during the Cultural Revolution, the chaos that engulfed China from 1966 to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. For one thing, writers are safe to explore it after the Communist Party admitted the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a grave error. Moreover, time has sharpened their memories.

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