Ten Years of Vicissitudes

Name: Ten Years of Vicissitudes
Author: Ma Shitu

沧桑十年

by Ma Shitu (马识途)

Status: Completed
Length: 278k Words
Genre: Historical
Updated: 3y ago
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This book is a memoir of the author’s experiences and observations during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution. From the start of the Cultural Revolution, the author was inexplicably branded a “counterrevolutionary” and a “capitalist roader,” then denounced and imprisoned, plunging into the misery of a shattered family and ruined life. As rebel factions rose across the country, the author even fell into the hands of a faction of Red Guards in Chengdu. Fortunately, drawing on experience working with the underground Communist Party before Liberation, the author managed to escape the rebel headquarters. While trying to relocate elsewhere, the author was discovered and taken into custody again. Later, the province’s propaganda needs led to the author’s reinstatement, and on January 25, 1979, the author was finally fully exonerated. Though the author suffered greatly during the Cultural Revolution, they remained optimistic and positive, calmly recounting the ups and downs of their life and closely observing the many faces of society around them. The prose is plain and direct, yet vivid and moving, fully conveying the author’s impressions of those ten tumultuous years. This is an important work among domestic memoirs of the Cultural Revolution.

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