China’s Cultural Revolution began 50 years ago this week. In the late Fifties, China’s Communist-in-chief, Chairman Mao, began “The Great Leap Forward,” a Communist economic reform that is ...

Wu Yiching's book "The Cultural Revolution at the Margins. Chinese Socialism in Crisis" gives a fascinating account of a period that was decisive… The most famous text from 1968 by the Hunan ...

such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square massacre. During his tour of “The Road toward Renewal” exhibition at the National Museum of China just two ...

I was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province right before Mao started the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. And my parents were illiterate workers. We should be the... Workers rule society.

The Cultural Revolution meant a vast purge of anyone ... When Mao died in 1976, the great survivor seized the chance of a political comeback. Within two years, Deng was the most powerful man ...

Li Zhensheng risked his life in his determination to capture China's Cultural Revolution on film. As a staff photographer working for a state-run newspaper, Li Zhensheng had rare access to people ...