Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution

Winner of the Cundill History Prize
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023

＂Masterful and crystalline. It feels as if Joan Didion turned her powers of observation on China.＂ --Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition

An indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens.