Xi Jinping and the battle over China's memory of the Cultural Revolution - podcast

Mao's Cultural Revolution pitted children against their parents and tore at the fabric of China's society. It's vital to the understanding of China today, says Red Memory author Tania Branigan History is more important to Xi Jinping than to any leader since Mao. So argues the Guardian's Tania Branigan, author of an acclaimed new book Red Memory. She tells Michael Safi that there's one era of China's history that looms over Xi more than any other: the Cultural Revolution. It's a period that trans...