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China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution

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“Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he found that he and his family were outcasts in Communist China. Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that because of his family’s ‘crimes’, he could never be more than a poor farmer…

China’s Cultural Revolution took place from 1966 to 1976 and I recall watching it in action through Leslie Cheung’s “Farewell to my Concubine” where books were burned and art and music were considered crimes. I also recall a glimpse of this terrible tragedy in the erotic film “The Red Violin“.

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