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What does China really think of Trump? That he and vengeful Chairman Mao would have got on well

Many see parallels with the architect of the Cultural Revolution. Both relished disruption and have exploited the power of the mob, says the Guardian’s foreign leader writer Tania Branigan

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2025

Five of the best books to understand modern China

From a poetic memoir of social repression to a study of the lasting impact of the Cultural Revolution – these titles are a good place to start if you want to know more about the country and its people

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2024

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem is sci-fi. But beyond the alien threat lies the trauma of modern China

Though Liu Cixin’s revered trilogy has been westernised for TV, it dares to trace the scars of the Cultural Revolution, says Guardian foreign leader writer Tania Branigan

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2024

Slavery, revolution and war: Baillie Gifford prize longlist highlights history

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory and Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo are among the titles in the running for the £50,000 award

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2023

Thursday briefing: What we learned from the foreign secretary’s trip to China

In today’s newsletter: The UK foreign secretary met senior Chinese officials for talks in Beijing – was there anything to gain?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2023

Looking into China's recent past to learn about the state of the world

NONFICTION: Tania Branigan looks at how the Cultural Revolution still affects China — and beyond.

Tribune News Service · May 24, 2023

'Red Memory' aims to profile people shaped by China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.

WEKU · May 8, 2023

Red Memory by Tania Branigan review – the toxic afterlife of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

The Guardian’s former China correspondent assembles a cast of eye-witnesses to tell a story now being suppressed once more

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2023

Red Memory by Tania Branigan review – the Cultural Revolution up close

In gathering histories from one of the country’s darkest, most divisive periods, the former Guardian China correspondent has created a gripping and important document

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2023

It’s too easy for the west to see North Korea as a WTF curiosity. We need to do better

As viral stories about the hermitic country abound, North Koreans face devastating hunger and Covid clampdowns, says Guardian leader writer Tania Branigan

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2022