Fractured Rebellion
by Andrew Walder
Andrew Walder has provided us with the first really detailed study of the Red Guard movement that we’ve ever had. What he does for us is to destroy the hypothesis with which most of us have been working in trying to understand both the Red Guard movement and why it fell into internecine warfare. It’s a difficult book to work with, because it’s as complex as life itself, and during the Cultural Revolution in China life was extremely complicated.
