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Tania Branigan

Biography

Tania Branigan

Tania Branigan writes editorials for the Guardian and spent seven years as its China correspondent, reporting on politics, the economy and social changes. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post. RED MEMORY is her first book. She lives in London.

Tania Branigan

Books by Tania Branigan

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
by Tania Branigan - History, Nonfiction

“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an absence; official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia. RED MEMORY uncovers 40 years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness.