A Red Sun Rises in China

Seeing those unprecedented hardships and that period of true history about to be buried forever, unknown to anyone,

I took up my humble pen to record what I saw and heard...

From 1949 to 1976, it was a time of unprecedented suffering in China, and a thirty-year period that remains forbidden to be written about by the CCP authorities today. The author, Bashan Caomin, personally experienced the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Moved by the passing of this history of suffering, he wrote *A Red Sun Rises in China*, a collection of documentary essays. It primarily describes the specific living conditions of ordinary people during China's three-year "Natural Disaster" period and the ten-year Cultural Revolution. This book is not a novel; every character's action and every line of dialogue is confined to factual record without embellishment. While some typical events and details may be as vivid as a novel, that is the typicality and vividness of life itself.

While experts and scholars occasionally evade CCP control to discuss the macro-history of that era, overseas Chinese and younger readers know very little about the specific daily lives of the common people. To prevent future generations from forgetting this painful history is the reason and value for the existence of *A Red Sun Rises in China*.