Music As Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution: Lei X. Ouyang. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 220 pp. $28 (Paper), ISBN: 978-0-252-08621-2. $110, (Cloth), ISBN: 978-0-252-04417-5. $19.95 (eBook), ISBN: 978-0-252-05311-5.

In this way, songs became a particular trigger that invoked the Cultural Revolution generation's memories of the Cultural Revolution. Through specific stories drawn from oral history interviews, Ouyang demonstrates that emotional attachments which individuals developed to songs of the Cultural Revolution made revolutionary music beyond political propaganda. Music As Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution: Lei X. Ouyang. [Extracted from the article]