In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily intoChina s Cultural Revolution. 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. 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 of terror. It is also, in spite of circumstances of remarkable grimness and injustice, an unlikely...