SCARLET MEMORIAL Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China By Zheng Yi Westview Press, 199 pp., illustrated, $32

May 16, the 30th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, passed without a mention in the official Chinese press. But "all over China," writes novelist and journalist Zheng Yi, there are "scarlet memorials" to that political hysteria that claimed the lives of more than a million people.

The grimmest of these "scarlet memorials" is the one he documents in this book -- the murder of thousands of men, women and children in several rural counties in southwestern Guangxi province, murders ...

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