cao is very often assessed very unfairly, I agree. Descriptions of everyday life during the Mao era has tended in recent decades to be the domain of the memoirist. Books in the vein of Wild Swans, which you say Gao attacks, have dominated the market in Western languages, competing to present tales of suffering, persecution and determined survival. Western readersw cannot help but be moved by these stories, though few such readers are able to assess the interests behind many of these tellers of family talesstorage solution.
Most of these memoirs have been the work of Chinese whose positions of relative social and political influence were challenged by the Red Guards, and so the writing and publication of these memoirs have often been part of a re-assertion of social status and what the authors see as political propriety, even if unacknowledged by the writersHong Kong Company Secretary.
Gao's book, judging from your review of it, provides a badly-needed counter weight to the hysterical and demonizing claims of the likes of Jung and Halliday. I shall definitely track myself down a copy亞洲知識管理學院.
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