Journal of the Cultural Revolution

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Youth, ideals, and life of the sent-down (rusticated) youth during the cultural revolution.

Journal of the Cultural RevolutionAt once a work of narrative lyricism and an act of personal courage, this memoir in verse documents the human cost of a period of political turmoil in Chinas recent past.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution marked a critical passage on Chinas road to modernity, as momentous for the world as it was for one boy caught up in its throes. In poetry that juxtaposes the political and the personal, the social and the individual, Luo Ying depicts a time when ultra-leftist mass movements and factional struggles penetrated the deepest level of private daily life. In bleak yet vivid portraits he reveals how the period indelibly marred him. I am a red guard just as I always was, he writes.

Giving voice to the inner life of a man haunted by his experiences, Journal of the Cultural Revolution bears witness to a traumatic time when ideology threatened to crush individuality. Luo Yings poetry stands as eloquent testimony to the power of the individual voice to endure in the face of dire social and historical circumstances.