ABSTRACT
This chapter examines clinical phenomena, the trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Song Binbin, who put the Red Guard armband on Mao's arm during the Cultural Revolution, had participated in beating to death the principal of her school. The chapter discusses the issues with Lu Yaogang, one of the most important writers in China today. According to the data announced in 2009 by the Mental Health Centre of China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than 100 million people suffering from all kinds of mental illness, 16 million of whom were seriously ill. Arthur Kleinman's book The Social Origin of Misery and Diseasein Modern China was the first by a psychiatrist to try to explain how this works in the lives of people. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu Yanshi came home only to find his family broken, his wife suffering amnesia caused by shock following a sexual assault on the part of an official.
