In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China\'s Cultural Revolution.
A story of coming of age in the midst of monumental historical upheaval, Shen\'s Gang of One is more than a memoir of one young man\'s harrowing experience during a time o.
Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a doctor whose house he\'d helped raid and whose beautiful daughter he secretly adored.
In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China\'s Cultural Revolution