The Cowshed

A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental memoir is one of the few surviving recordings of the movement’s opposition The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing account of his impri