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Dongping
Han
 Chinese academic who grew up
on a collective farm in Shandong during the Cultural
Revolution. His parents and almost all of the village's
residents were illiterate before the Cultural Revolution, and
only because of it was he able to study and eventually attend
university.
The
Unknown Cultural Revolution: 185 pages. Deals mainly with
the effects of the Cultural Revolution on rural areas, and how
much of the real progress made during the Cultural Revolution
was unfortunately reversed after Mao's death and the restoration
of brutal capitalism. Han focuses on the tangible leap forward
in education in rural areas, so often neglected beforehand, and
which during the Cultural Revolution were provided with schools
and teachers.
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