On the day that she died Bian Zhongyun shook hands with her husband before she left for work. She knew the violence that awaited her at the prestigious girls’ school in Beijing where she was a vice-principal, if not the full extent of the tortures that lay ahead. It was 5 August 1966, the beginning of the decade of murderous terror that came to be known as China’s Cultural Revolution, and she was about to become its first victim.
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