Gang of one
Subtitle: memoirs of a Red Guard
By: Fan Shen.
Series: American lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Shen, Fan, 1955-; Chinese Americans -- Biography.; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.; China -- Social life and customs -- 1949-; China -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.