{"id":3845,"date":"2023-11-27T14:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:23:13","slug":"tania-branigan-red-memory-living-remembering-and-forgetting-chinas-cultural-revolution-in-conversation-with-preti-taneja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"<h6>Tania Branigan: &#8216;Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China&#8217;s Cultural Revolution&#8217; in conversation with Preti Taneja<h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-6a2ec5aed5287 light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-6a2ec5aed53ed light\"><div class=\"fsn-code fsn-6a2ec5aed54fa\"><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/888665997?h=ad200802b6&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;quality_selector=1&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"NCLA 24th NOV\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a2ec5aed5598\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event features Tania Branigan, the\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s foreign leader writer and\u00a0<\/span>author of\u00a0<em>Red Memory,\u00a0<\/em>in conversation with\u00a0Preti Taneja who\u00a0is the Director of NCLA and Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Tania Branigan has written an exceptional book. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Memory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not only exhumes a buried, and alarmingly recent, history, it also offers insights at once deep and clear into universal and timeless questions &#8211; of memory and forgetting, of horror and what it takes both to survive it and inflict it. It is haunting, evocative and written with an almost painful beauty. I cannot recommend it too highly.\u2019 Jonathan Freedland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Memory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is born of the seven years Tania Branigan spent in Beijing as the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Guardian&#8217;s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> China correspondent \u2013 writing about the Communist Party&#8217;s politics, satirical novels, rural development, feminist activism, protests in Hong Kong, natural disasters, ethnic unrest and much more. Tania interviewed everyone from artists and tycoons to factory workers, farmers and a missile researcher turned volunteer: she became fascinated by the dizzying scale of the country&#8217;s extraordinary transformation, which was reshaping the world, as well as impacting on people&#8217;s lives at the most intimate level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Memory <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">won the Cundhill History Prize 2023, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This event took place on the 23rd of November 2023 in the Culture Lab.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[28,240,353,602,861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}