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Radio 4,24 Feb 2017,11 mins

Chairman Mao's Red Guard

Witness History

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In the 1960s, the youth of China was swept up in a whirlwind of political fanaticism. Lucy Burns speaks to Saul Yeung, who was 20 when he took part in the Cultural Revolution.

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