edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson
Harvard University Press, 468 pp.
“Bianyuanren” Jishi [A Record of “Marginal People”]
by Yang Kuisong
Secret Archives of the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi
edited by Yongyi Song et al
Mirror Media Group, 36-volume e-book
Other Materials Consulted
by Guo Jian, Yongyi Song, and Yuan Zhou
Rowman and Littlefield, second edition, 542 pp.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database
edited by Yongyi Song and others
Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, third edition, CD–ROM
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis
by Wu Yiching
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For decades, Beijing’s Beihai Park has been one of the city’s most beloved retreats—a strip of green around a grand lake to the north of the Communist Party’s leadership compound, its waters crowded with electric rental boats shaped like ducks and lotus flowers. A former imperial garden, Beihai is home to stone screens, temples, and steles from as far back as the Mongolian occupation of China, but it also has reminders of more recent conquests. On its western shore is one of the oddest: a life-size bronze sculpture of three children rowing a boat through a wave of musical notes. Next to the boat, three more children sit attentively as a soldier on a stool recounts a story. Surrounded by shrubs and flowers, the boat and the children point out toward the lake, as if readying for an idyllic day in the park.