The Cultural Revolution
Cultural artefacts
Kim’s wallet, decorated with
pro-Mao slogans and featuring his
one-way ticket to Canton (top); and
Kim’s school pencil box (above)Acts of humiliation
Red Guards parade prisoners
wearing dunce’s caps listing
their supposed crimes. Such acts
of humiliation and persecution
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QʛEKCNCPFKPVGNNGEVWCNRQUKVKQPUPolitical essay
Kim’s essay on the Cultural
Revolution, written during
his time in the Xin Qiao hotel.
He now describes his youthful
idealism about the regime
as “ridiculously childish
and simplistic“Changing times
Kim pictured in China in- It was during that
year that circumstances
changed suddenly
and dramatically for
the Gordon family