Ignoring the past; China.(Remembering China's Cultural Revolution) From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 20, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

How it wasn't

Forty years on, the government still avoids discussion of the Cultural Revolution

IN THE village of Hongsheng, Li Furong feared trouble when he was summoned one day in August 1966 to a meeting. He had been denounced as a "capitalist-roader" and thought fellow peasants had gathered to attack him. Instead he found himself press-ganged into helping with the murder of octogenarian former landlords in one of the bloodiest orgies of violence in or aro...

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