Books
Jun. 6, 2023
“Red Memory”
In this 283-page book by Tania Branigan about the afterlives of China’s cultural revolution, if the book had a thesis, it would be that without the right to remember, there can be no freedom to forget.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
China fascinates everyone. It is vast, verdant, culturally and economically free standing, and filled with proud and intrepid people. While change may come slowly to lesser nations, China’s shifts come, at times, with the force of the massive tectonic plates that lie beneath it. My fascination began with a paper I wrote in middle school on Mao’s Long March. Mao had proclaimed the new nation in 1949. Then, about twelve years later, something happened. Little was know...
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