The period of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 until 1977, was one of the most difficult in Chinese history. China’s leader, Mao Zedong, had led a revolution…
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. The Cultural Revolution and its tormented and violent legacy would resonate in Chinese politics and society for decades to come.
Fifty years ago one of the bloodiest eras in history began, in which as many as two million people died. But who started it and what was it for?
Under Mao Zedong, China underwent a spasm of violence called the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, which threatened its ancient heritage.
Fifty years ago yesterday is generally considered the date that Mao Zedong initiated China's Cultural Revolution. Over the next three years, two million Chinese may have died in the upheaval…
A collection of rare photographs from China's Cultural Revolution is on display in London for the first time since they were hidden for safekeeping nearly 45 years ago.
The bestselling Chinese author talks about growing up during the Cultural Revolution, writing about the absurdities of Communism, and his new novel, The Seventh Day.
Shayla Love’s mother and grandparents lived through a brutal period in Chinese history – now she wants to know what biological traces of their experiences she carries within her today
FIGAROVOX/HUMEUR - Jean-Christophe Buisson bat en brèche le mythe de l'originalité absolue de Mai 68. Il rouvre les classiques de la littérature du XIXe pour montrer que ni les slogans, ni les personnages, ni les revendications des soixante-huitards n'étaient inédites.
The long read: It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness?
Artist: Ulrick Jean Pierre
Recreation of a Cucuteni-Trypillian house burning; note the amount of extra fuel (straw and wood) added to the outside of the clay walls to increase the temperature needed for ceramic vitrification…
FROM THE PUBLISHER: It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, popularity, and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution—and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart... a breathtaking true story your teens won't soon forget.
The Model Opera As a photographer of Xinhua News Agency, Zhang Yaxin’s 张雅心 (born in 1933 in Heishan) task was to shoot the model operas and their political significance during Chinese Cultural Revolution (launched in 1966). The eight officially permitted model operas became part of Chinese
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