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Rescuing China s muzzled past, one footnote at a time The historian Yu Ruxin in Hong Kong, May 29, 2021. In a two-volume tome, Ruxin explains the crucial role of the military in Mao’s stormy Cultural Revolution. Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times. by Chris Buckley (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For decades, Yu Ruxin, a businessman turned independent historian, scoured used book stalls across China for frayed, yellowing documents about the Cultural Revolution, a decade of mass political upheaval unleashed by Mao Zedong. The fruit of his long quest was published in Hong Kong this month, a 1,354-page history that sheds new light on the central role of the military during the Cultural Revolution. The People’s Liberation Army is widely known to have been called in to impose order, but Yu also documents in meticulous detail how the military was also involved in purges and political persecution.

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