How China Remembers 1966
Nethuki K. Geeganage is a first year History student whose research interests focus on political memory and modern Chinese history. Introduction The period between the 1960s and 1980s is often remembered by the global surge in youth mobilisation against traditional values. In China, however, youth radicalism developed a far more pervasive character. [1] Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution vilified tradition as an enemy of revolutionary purity and used China’s youth to achieve this....
