The Cundill Lecture: Red Memory

Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer at The Guardian, will deliver the 2024 Cundill Lecture on her award winning book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan was awarded the 2023 Cundill History Prize for her “haunting” excavation of the Cultural Revolution. Uncovering forty years of silence, following countless hours of interviews, Branigan’s Red Memory gives voices to those who lived through Mao’s decade of madness. Written while Branigan was reporting in China, this masterful book examines the scar running through Chinese society and the souls of its citizens, revealing a “major trauma” which looms over the nation.