“The Killing Wind: A Chinese County’s Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution” by Tan Hecheng
It is a sultry early Autumn day in the central province of Hunan in China, half a century ago in 1967. In a small cluster of villages, remote from the main political centre in Beijing, life revolves around farming, tending animals, just making a basic living. But for a couple of weeks, from around the…