Explore the impact of Mao's Cultural Revolution on China, revealing chaos, violence, and lasting scars on society.

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy A specter is haunting China – the specter of the Cultural Revolution. As China marks the 50th anniversary of this seminal event, its supporters have ...

What was the Cultural Revolution? It was a brutal 10-year period between 1966-76 (with most of the violence occurring in the first five years) that led to hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of ...

Chinese state media have broken their silence on the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, with a commentary in the People’s Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party. The ...

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 began exactly fifty years ago today. Unleashed by Mao Zedong as a means to reassert his authority over the Communist Party with the help of the Chinese ...

Fifty years ago this week, the Cultural Revolution began with a sudden shift in power. China’s youth, raised to revere their teachers and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres, were abruptly told to ...

The difference between this revolution and those in Germany, China, or Iran, is not of kind, but of degree, and only so far. The similarities between the sentiments of extremists in Iran’s government ...

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 we began publishing The New Criterion in September 1982, we prefaced the first issue with a note detailing some reasons for wishing to start a new cultural review that aimed at providing a ...

A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an exercise in Buddhist practice. By Aatish Taseer and Maxime Fossat “Wild Swans,” a ...