Memory is a vehicle by which we travel in history. This is the assumption on which I have built my following analysis，which examines a case study on remembering the Maoist revolution in rural China. A main purpose of this paper is to reflect on the problem of memory，rather than focusing on the factual facts about what happened during the years of the Maoist revolution. In other words，this is ananalytical exercise on the problem of memory by an anthropological critique ofa case study about remembering to forget what happened during the years of the Maoist revolution. The case study was provided by Fang Huirong，when she was studying as a graduate student at the Department of Sociology at Peking University.Fang’s work is part of a larger project，“the Oral History Project，” directedby Professor Sun Liping，a known sociologist in China.¹