Tania Branigan, China's Cultural Revolution: Son's Guilt Over the Mother He Sent to Her Death. Zhang Hongbing was 16 when he denounced his mother for criticising Chairman Mao. Now Zhang wants to make amends. Guardian, Mar 28, 2013 (video). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ ... uilt-zhang-hongping
My comment:
(a) This seems to be well documented in China, first reported in Chinese language there as early as 2011.
(b) Guzhen, Anhui 安徽省蚌埠市 固镇县
(c) The report says, "The Communist party long ago deemed the period a disaster. Even so, authorities are chary of its examination."
chary (adj) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chary
(d) The report quotes "Michael Schoenhals, of Lund University, who co-authored Mao's Last Revolution."
(i) Lund University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_University
(located in the city of Lund, Sweden; traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral)
(ii) Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao's Last Revolution. Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2006.
(e) The report talks about "her younger brother, Meikai."
方忠谋之弟方梅开
(f) The report says that during Cultural Revolution "Zhang, previously called Tiefu, became Hongbing, or 'red soldier.'"
That is 铁夫.
(g) The report mentions "Yin Hongbiao, a Beijing-based historian."