This is a site maintained by Youqin Wang, senior lecturer of Chinese at the University of Chicago, who was in 10th-grade in the Girls Middle School, attached to Beijing Teachers University in 1966. This was the year when the Cultural Revolution started.
This monstrous episode in human history eventually resulted in the deaths and mprisonment of millions and was specially savage against the educated class. Ms. Wang has gathered thenames and stories of more than 700 educators who were killed or committed suicide as a result of torture during this period of time.
Ms. Wang is of the opinion that todau, the survivors and their tormentors just want to forget. Given that the terror has subsided, people have learned to repress their memories. But she has not.