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A propaganda poster bearing the slogan
“We Are Chairman Mao’s Little Red Guards”.
Kim was among the millions of young people
who joined the militant student movement
mobilised by Mao (pictured above, depicted
on a French badge) in 1966Half a world away
Kim Gordon in 1966, at the Beijing hostel
complex the family called home in the
years before they were imprisoned. “In
winter the Chinese wear padded clothes
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padded shoes, hat, gloves,” he wrote.KXKPIQʘVJGNCPF
Workers harvest rice in Canton,
195 6. In 196 5 , when Kim and his
family relocated to China to start a
new life, it was among
the world’s poorest countries