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| Author | Zheng Yi |
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Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China is a book of reportage literature by the Chinese novelist Zheng Yi (郑义; born 1947). Zheng and a group of writers under the joint pseudonym "T. P. Sym" translated and abridged it from the Chinese work 红色纪念碑 Hongse jinianbei (Red monument; Taipei: Huashi, 1993). Zheng uses local government documents, eye-witness accounts and confessions to describe the factional violence and even cannibalism that occurred in the Guangxi Massacre during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976).[1]
Zheng blames the savagery and cannibalism on "class struggle" and "revolutionary revenge".[2] The book received praise for revealing the nature of Mao's regime and also criticism for giving the impression that cannibalism was systematic and widespread.
- ^ Leung (1994), pp. 259–69.
- ^ Zheng (1996), pp. 44, 71.