Red China: Of Devils & Demons

Revolutionary teachers and students smeared paste all over my body and stuck on pieces of paper with abusive slogans. They forced me to wear a black dunce cap and beat me with their belt buckles. 1 spent 103 days in a dreadful hideout for devils and demons and underwent what is too painful to describe.

So last week did one of Red China's foremost musicians describe the treatment meted out to him by Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. What made the description more remarkable was that it was made on American soil, in Manhattan,...

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