Nearly 60 years on, the Cultural Revolution still casts a shadow across Chinese society, with bitter memories of its mass hysteria and violence. In the recent era of opening up, websites have emerged in which victims engage with perpetrators in a kind of therapeutic dialogue. Yet under President Xi, Chairman Mao is being rehabilitated in a new round of official suppression. Tania Branigan, who worked in Beijing for The Guardian, gives us a gripping overview in Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution (Faber & Faber).