Jinhui, who had teamed up with American jazzman Buck Clayton in Shanghai to create modern Chinese pop music. The Communists fingered Li as one of three “big demons” of the Cultural Revolution, and Red Guards killed him. Murdered, too, was Chen Xujing, an American-educated sociologist who had advocated China’s “complete Westernization” in 1933. Hundreds of thousands more Chinese with “bourgeois ideas” and “bad class backgrounds” followed them into the grave.
