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...weapon of resistance, he said yesterday, is his memory. Chinese documentary filmmaker and writer Xing spoke at a screening here yesterday of his film “A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution,” which details personal childhood horrors he and his generation experienced during Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. In an event jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese government, which Xing said...
...Burgin’s video installation, a female narrator recites his translation of an 18th century novella, “La Petite Maison,” while the screen alternates between scenes of a Chinese woman turning the pages of Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” and slowly rotating 360-degree panoramic views of Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House in West Hollywood...
...optimist to decide to remain in Shanghai with his wife and young daughter after the Communists overthrew Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and gained power in China. He went on to serve as general manager for Shell, the only multinational oil company to stay on after Mao Tse-tung's triumph. When he died of cancer in 1957, Shell brought in a Briton as its new manager and hired Nien Cheng as his special adviser. In 1966, the year in which Mao launched the frenzied upheaval known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the company decided to pull out. Cheng...
...chair forward and told Tao Feng to stand on it. When he did and stood there in a posture of subservience in his tall paper hat, the snickers became uncontrolled laughter. Someone in a corner of the room stood up. Holding up the Little Red Book of Mao Tse-tung's quotations, he led the assembly in shouting slogans: ''Down with Tao Feng!'' ''Down with the running dog of the imperialists!'' ''Long live our great leader Chairman Mao!'' I was shocked to see Tao Feng raise his fist and shout with gusto the same slogans, including those against himself...
...disperse the mourners. ''Thousands were killed,'' writes Cheng, ''and tens of thousands wounded. Those found with poems were condemned as counterrevolutionaries and shot without trial. It took the cleaners of Peking two days to hose away the blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died and the ferocious Jiang Qing was arrested for conspiracy, along with the rest of the infamous ''Gang of Four,'' whose members had played such a pivotal role in prolonging the Cultural Revolution. Then began the glacial process of ''rehabilitation.'' Cheng petitioned the police to investigate the death of Meiping...