ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig26_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Zhang Shengyou (b. 1948) and Hu Ping, also interviewed in this book, emerged on the Chinese literary scene after the 1984 and 1985 publication of their coauthored reportage about Liu Binyan. The two have fascinated readers with investigations of the darker aspects of recent China. Their reportage "Contemplation of History: A Twenty-Year Tribute to the Mass Exchange of Revolutionary Experiences of Red Guards on Jinggang Mountain" (Lishi chensi lu: Jinggang Shan hongweibing da chuanlian ershi zhounian ji) (1987) is a vivid account of the tragic episode at Jinggang Mountain—the frenzy of the Red Guards and the epidemic that killed many of them. The reader is compelled to realize that a more dangerous epidemic still was Mao's personality cult and the ruthless and dehumanizing political indoctrination. Their February 1988 reportage "The Great Global Connection" (Shijie da chuanlian) exposes, with well-researched evidence, the loss of China's best-educated people to the West, particularly to the United States. By recounting many cases of suppression and waste of talents, they call for immediate action to stop this trend.
