“On the world stage, the Cultural Revolution is one major embarassment to the CCP regime, and Tibet is another. The way the Cultural Revolution played out in Tibet…became part of a double taboo that is not supposed to be touched by anyone. In 1999, for example, the agency that oversees implementation of the CCP’s policies in Tibet, the United Front Work Department, issued a commemorative volume called Illustrating One Hundred Years of Tibet. Among the hundreds of photographs included in the volume, not even one is from the time of the Cultural Revolution. It is as if the ten years in Tibet between 1966 and 1976 never occurred.
“This deletion is an act of policy, not coincidence. It is a powerful reminder of Milan Kundera’s famous adage, ‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ ”
—Wang Lixiong in Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
