Editing Cultural Revolution (section)

=== Rape and sexual abuse ===
{{Further|Sent-down youth#Sexual violence}}
[[Pan Suiming]], Emily Honig, and others documented that rape and sexual abuse of sent-down women were common during the Cultural Revolution's height.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Larson |first=Wendy |date=October 1999 |title=Never This Wild: Sexing the Cultural Revolution |journal=[[Modern China]] |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=423–450 |doi=10.1177/009770049902500402 |s2cid=144491731 |issn=0097-7004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Honig |first=Emily |year=2003 |title=Socialist Sex: The Cultural Revolution Revisited |journal=[[Modern China (journal)|Modern China]] |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=143–175 |doi=10.1177/0097700402250735 |issn=0097-7004 |jstor=3181306 |s2cid=143436282 |quote=A 1973 report on sent-down youth estimated that since 1969, there had been some 16,000 cases of rape.}}</ref> Tania Branigan documented that women raped tended to be from educated urban backgrounds while their rapists were poor peasants or local officials.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Branigan |first=Tania |date=2023-01-19 |title=A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China's Cultural Revolution |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/tragedy-pushed-to-the-shadows-truth-about-china-cultural-revolution |access-date=2024-10-18 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Branigan |first=Tania |title=Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution |date=2023 |publisher=W. W. Norton |isbn=978-1-324-05195-4 |page=166 |quote=But the city girls, naive and far from their families, were easy prey for peasants and especially cadres. Though fright and shame deterred many from reporting abuses, thousands of cases were recorded in a single year. The problem was pronounced enough that the centre kept threatening punishment for rapes. Often the victims took the blame, since they had worse class backgrounds than officials.}}</ref>