msquebanh, #Guardian #journalist Tania Branigan’s #debut #book about #China ’s deadly #CulturalRevolution has won the US$75,000 #CundillHistoryPrize .
Branigan received the award for “Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution” at a gala in #Montreal on Wednesday evening.
Jurors describe the book as a “haunting” account of the #trauma endured by those who #survived #MaoZedong ’s power grab in the mid-20th century.
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