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Jung Chang: Chairman Mao Badge
Season 1 · Episode 22

Jung Chang: Chairman Mao Badge

Lauded writer Jung Chang joins Alice Loxton to revisit a childhood characterized by surveillance and prohibition.

A History of the World in Spy Objects

April 10, 202412m 53sExplicit

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Show Notes

Can you ever truly suppress a curious mind?

If there was one aim of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, it was that. The lauded writer Jung Chang joins Alice Loxton to revisit a childhood characterized by surveillance and prohibition. But even in Communist China – at a time when pins bearing the face of the great leader were worn on every chest – curious minds found a way to explore…

From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series produced by Alex Burnard, Morgan Childs, Claire Crofton, Joe Foley, Frank Palmer, Kellie Redmond and Isabel Sutton. Music by Nick Ryan.

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