Confessions of a Red Guard
Xiaosheng, Liang / Goldblatt, Howard Novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author's odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of "counterrevolutionaries", an execution, a budding romance, and stolen pleasures with forbidden books.