LEADER 04532nam 2200517Ia 450 001 9910811422003321 005 20230331010601.0 010 $a0-8047-6589-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804765893 035 $a(CKB)2560000000092796 035 $a(EBL)1017171 035 $a(OCoLC)811504080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1017171 035 $a(DE-B1597)564321 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804765893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1017171 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10599096 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770177 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000092796 100 $a19860929d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBorn red$b[electronic resource] $ea chronicle of the Cultural Revolution /$fGao Yuan 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d1987 215 $a1 online resource (417 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-1369-3 327 $tBorn Red -- $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tThe Hold of History -- $tLearning to Be Red and Expert -- $tThe Thirty-Six Stratagems -- $tHidden Messages -- $tOx Ghosts and Snake Spirits -- $tWinds and Waves -- $tThe Degenerate and the Worn Shoe -- $tThe Red, the Black, and the In-Between -- $tSmashing the Four Olds -- $tCleaning Our Own Nest -- $tPicking Up the Pieces -- $tRebels and Royalists -- $tGoing to See the Great Helmsman -- $tSending Off the Monsters -- $tDefending the Mountain Devil -- $tThe Carpenter-Spy -- $tReply from a Socialist-Roader -- $tOn the Road -- $tRocks Down the Well -- $tA Long March, by Hook or Crook -- $tSpring Festival Visitors -- $tThe Capless Official -- $tSmears and Skirmishes -- $tSpring Buds -- $tArrival of the Cadets -- $tThe Grand Alliance -- $tUncommon Laughter -- $tVictory Fish -- $tThe First Martyr -- $tSummons by Subterfuge -- $tStorming the Enemy Stronghold -- $tSpies in the Marketplace -- $tFamily Skeletons -- $tPlaying with Fire -- $tThe Obstinacy of Truth -- $tOn the Run -- $tFrom Victors to Vanquished -- $tLiving in Limbo -- $tClass Brothers Take Revenge -- $tThe Radiance of the Setting Sun -- $tThree Loyalties and Four Boundless Loves -- $tHostage for a Hobby -- $tThe Twelve-Force Typhoon -- $tThe Irretrievable Past -- $tThe Way Out -- $tPostscript -- $tAppendix A. Biographical Notes -- $tAppendix B Glossary 330 $aBorn Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's father was a county political official who was in and out of trouble during those years, and the intense interplay between father and son and the differing perceptions and impact of the Cultural Revolution for the two generations provide both an unusual perspective and some extraordinary moving moments. He also makes deft use of traditional mythology and proverbial wisdom to link, sometimes ironically, past and present. Gao relates in vivid fashion how students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies against 'capitalist roader' teachers and administrators, marching them through the streets to the accompaniment of chants and jeers and driving some of them to suicide. Eventually the students divided into two factions, and school and town became armed camps. Gao tells of the exhilaration that he and his comrades experienced at their initial victories, of their deepening disillusionment as they utter defeat as the tumultuous first phase of the Cultural Revolution came to a close. The portraits of the persons to whom Gao introduces us - classmates, teachers, family members - gain weight and density as the story unfolds, so that in the end we see how they all became victims of the dynamics of a mass movement out of control. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / China$2bisacsh 607 $aChina$xHistory 607 $aChina$xHistory$yCultural Revolution, 1966-1976$vPersonal narratives 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / China. 676 $a951.05 676 $a951.05/6 700 $aGao$b Yuan$f1952-$01679969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811422003321 996 $aBorn red$94048598 997 $aUNINA