Sun Peidong used to teach one of the only courses on the Cultural Revolution available in China. For years, she served as a history professor at Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University, where she dedicated herself to helping students grapple with that complex and traumatic chapter of Chinese history.
Yet when the space for sensitive discourse began shrinking, she found herself among an increasing number of academics being singled out, censored, investigated and eventually punished by authorities.
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