Wenguang Huang, author of the forthcoming memoir The Little Red Guard, writes about the death of Kim Jong-il in the New York Times

Wenguang Huang was in middle school in central China when Mao Zedong died. Writing about his experience of Mao’s death, Wenguang discusses the parallels between North Korea and Mao’s China and the meaning of Kim Jong-il’s death. To read the essay, click here.