1. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — Why is it called “cultural”? Superficial observations only revealed brutal struggles, large scale rebellion, or a limited civil war in various places.

When Mao Tse-Tung (as we spelled it then) launched his Cultural Revolution in 1966, Chen and her expatriate Chinese husband, ...

The WNBA of my childhood— when stars like Lisa Leslie, Dawn Staley and Sheryl Swoopes made splashes on and off the court—felt like a cultural touchstone. I can remember seeing these women on ...

Explore how DeepSeekR1, the controversial language model, evades questions related to China, Xi Jinping, and Mao Zedong, ...

the former defense minister whom Mao had identified as the head of an “anti-party clique” for making critical comments about the Great Leap Forward. Not surprisingly, when the Cultural Revolution ...

In an email, he described a Black applicant as “lively and charming—and yes, Black, which is great—but I can ... Just as Mao’s Cultural Revolution used class background as a primary ...

With characters like Elvis Gratton, the late Poulin was the province's working-class everyman with a heart of gold.

This month marks 50 years since the official beginning of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. On 16 May 1966, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issued an internal ...

China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, to give it its full title, was one of the most extraordinary and perhaps least understood political, social and economic convulsions of a century scarred ...

Lin, Mao Zedong’s heir apparent, was also one of the architects of the dreaded Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The official narrative says that Lin was fleeing to the Soviet Union after a ...