| 单词 | Cultural Revolution |
| 例句 | In the three months since the Cultural Revolution had started, changes had been so constant that I often felt lost. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the newspapers had praised them as the pioneers of the Cultural Revolution, every high school and college had organized Red Guards to rebel against the old system. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We thanked heaven that Chairman Mao had started this Cultural Revolution, and that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had uncovered the mess in our schools. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, as the highest official of our district before the Cultural Revolution, he was often taken as a companion target to struggle meetings against his junior officers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Right before the Cultural Revolution, the picture had been of a huge mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion, with a tiny big-nosed American trembling in the corner. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a junior high school math teacher, and before the Cultural Revolution she had been a Model Teacher. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Cultural Revolution she had been a Model Teacher. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew this had something to do with the Cultural Revolution. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One day the Conservative faction were revolutionaries that defended Chairman Mao’s ideas; the next day, the opposite Rebel faction became the heroes of the Cultural Revolution. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This will inspire our students’ revolutionary enthusiasm and further promote the Cultural Revolution in our school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Things like that will probably happen again because of this Cultural Revolution, so I want to tell you something about our family.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what I did and where I went, the Cultural Revolution followed me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When they asked to borrow a bicycle from a black family in the name of the Cultural Revolution, they were not used to being refused. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have resolved to dedicate my whole life to Chairman Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. I will give every drop of blood in my body to work to liberate all of mankind.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We thanked heaven that Chairman Mao had started this Cultural Revolution, and that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had uncovered the mess in our schools. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned about Margaret Thatcher and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel and the Cultural Revolution; I learned about parliamentary politics and electoral systems around the world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her film debut, China Love, is an empathetic take on how the country’s tumultuous history since the Cultural Revolution has influenced its present day. The fantasy world of pre-wedding photos: inside China's billion-dollar industry 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z One character speaks of the Cultural Revolution as if it were fairly recent. Review: In ‘Snow in Midsummer,’ It’s Not Just the Forecast That’s Amiss 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The film, after all, tells of a couple torn apart by the Cultural Revolution, and it seems to be interested, more than most recent Zhang work, in revisiting postwar China. Cannes: For Zhang Yimou, a return to roots amid a turn to Hollywood 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, the skeletons of Wan Li, his empress, and Lady Wang were stolen by Red Guards and torched in a public bonfire. Museums: China's Reluctant Emperor 2011-09-07T10:55:41Z Chinese-born composers, some of them scarred by the Cultural Revolution, have made major inroads in the classical music scene in the United States and elsewhere. New Juilliard Ensemble’s Focus! Festival Under Joel Sachs 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z I did not fully believe in the Cultural Revolution. Beijing film festival: Marco Mueller back where his love of film began 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “Nightwatch” tells the story of a Chinese-American boy who, after his father’s death, explores his role in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Max Yu, Young Theater Graduate, Wins $45,000 Playwriting Prize 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Thereafter, he held several teaching posts until the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in August 1966, when he was forbidden to teach, write or paint. Wu Guanzhong obituary 2010-07-07T17:42:00Z “It helped them emerge from the Cultural Revolution as individuals, not just as victims.” Yang Jiang, Chinese Author and Translator, Dies at 104 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The year is 1975 but he is unaware of the Cultural Revolution. 11 Flowers - review 2012-05-22T13:01:46Z The material is adapted from Qu Bo’s novel “Tracks in the Snowy Forest,” the basis for “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” one of eight model operas produced during the Cultural Revolution. ‘The Taking of Tiger Mountain,’ Directed by Tsui Hark 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Ai said the book also would discuss his father, the acclaimed Chinese poet Ai Qing, who was punished during the Cultural Revolution. Ai Weiwei to publish memoir in 2017 on 'struggle for individual freedom' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Because that reminds me of the Cultural Revolution.” ‘Caught in the Web,’ on Web Searches in China 2012-09-16T01:30:06Z As Mr Dikötter describes, even during the Cultural Revolution there were signs that commitment to it was sometimes only skin deep. In the heat of the sun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, says everything he needs to about the Cultural Revolution with a scene in which Tadpole and other schoolboys eat coal and claim to find it delicious. Review: In Mo Yan’s ‘Frog,’ a Chinese Abortionist Embodies State Power 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Cao insists that the Cultural Revolution is “merely a setting, not the main subject” of his books. Little Sugarcoating in Cao Wenxuan’s Children’s Books 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z He was interested in returning to his roots, no longer barred from China as he was during the hard-line days of the Cultural Revolution, and found more interest in this emerging community from China. 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee eyes San Gabriel Valley for new stories 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z She was born in Shanghai just before the Cultural Revolution. What is California cuisine? Whatever my immigrant mom is cooking. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z This novel centers on two children — Bronze, a mute peasant boy, and Sunflower, the daughter of an artist — who are growing up in the wetlands of the northern Jiangsu province during China’s Cultural Revolution. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Though the characters never mention the Cultural Revolution, Great Leap Forward or Tiananmen Square massacre by name, the turmoil of the past haunts them as they rush headlong into the future. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Zhou, 57, was exiled during the Cultural Revolution but enrolled in the first composition class just after the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing reopened in 1977. 2011 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music 2011-04-22T17:12:05Z According to “The Observer,” a festival in Yunnan wanted to show Hu’s “Though I Am Gone,” about a middle-school vice principal whose students beat her to death during the Cultural Revolution. ‘Spark’ and ‘The Observer’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Past, and China’s 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet she is philosophical about the Cultural Revolution. China's First Lady of Opera 2010-03-04T16:16:00Z Taking their name from the four notorious Chinese Communist Party officials accused of treasonous crimes during the Cultural Revolution, Gang of Four came up with fellow bands like the Mekons and Delta 5. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z And we can only guess at the horror he would have felt if he could have foreseen the fate that awaited his ancestor in the Cultural Revolution. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z A major Chinese release that implies misguided Cultural Revolution behavior — if only for spooky thrills — is no Equinox Flower, but it’s a rare artifact even today. Review: ‘Mojin: The Lost Legend,’ in Search of a Burial Ground 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z To this ever-urgent question, “Beijing Spring” — a new documentary about the titular movement for democratic expression that exploded in the wake of the Cultural Revolution in China — responds with a resounding yes. ‘Beijing Spring’ Review: The Politics of Aesthetics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The sculptures are in stark contrast to the politically charged work he is better known for, like his “Mao Jacket“ and “Dinosaur” series, which are both responses to the Cultural Revolution. New and Old Media Artworks at Museum of Modern Art 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z He is the son of farmers who left school during the Cultural Revolution to work, first in agriculture and later in a factory, according to his Nobel biography. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z During the Cultural Revolution, when Red Guards tried to destroy anything associated with tradition, Mao ordered the museum protected. Rival Museums Retrace Route of China?s Imperial Treasures 2010-07-06T23:02:00Z Another factor is the popularity of North Korean opera in China, which dates to the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution when China’s own traditional theatrical forms were banned. North Korean Opera Draws Acclaim in China 2010-07-28T11:49:00Z Sometimes she tried to inquire about the Cultural Revolution, she said. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Nearly half a century after the end of the Cultural Revolution, discussion of the period is still largely muffled in public and private spaces in China. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z How her dad had fled the Cultural Revolution, literally fording rivers to get his family here, to America, only to find his medical license didn't transfer, so he had to do schooling again. What grandma's sponge cake taught me about being Asian in America 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z That would be the first appearance of a Soviet head of state in China since the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square It begins in Vancouver, as a young woman learns of her family’s history from Mao’s Cultural Revolution through Tiananmen Square. More fine fall fiction 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Hu’s films are personal takes on several critical turning points in modern Chinese history, especially the persecution of independent thinkers in the 1950s, the famine that followed it, and the Cultural Revolution a decade later. Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z The show, which was organized by Mr. Zhou and runs until July 18, focuses on the evolution of painting in Chinese contemporary art since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Special Report: Art in Perspective: A Contemporary Artist Takes Helm at Chinese Bank's New Contemporary Museum 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Teng, unfortunately, ran afoul of the Cultural Revolution in China, and most of his work was lost or destroyed. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z In it, she found hundreds of photos of China’s Cultural Revolution. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The Beijing resident survived the Cultural Revolution by keeping his head down — a habit that makes him all the more alarmed as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests ramp up. Review | Full-court banter and intensity mark a gripping ‘Great Leap’ at Round House Theatre 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Among them were some highly trained Chinese chefs escaping Mao’s Cultural Revolution who would go on to earn three- and four-star reviews in The New York Times. How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Moving to Paris after the Cultural Revolution to study with Messiaen, Chen combines elements of traditional Chinese music with an Impressionistic French sensibility. A diplomatic China Philharmonic plays Disney Hall 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z But my mother couldn’t finish music school because of the Cultural Revolution. New Jersey Symphony’s New Director on Defining Her Own Sound 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z That's what those peppy kids used to say in China, back in the heady salad days of the Cultural Revolution. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z Three years later, he released “Coming Home,” a movie based on “The Criminal Lu Yanshi” about a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. A Novelist Says a Movie Fails to Credit Her. The Film World Shrugs. 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z “Eighty to 90 percent of Tibetan art was destroyed or displaced during the Cultural Revolution,” the art historian David Jackson said during a recent telephone interview. Antiques: Johan Zoffany, Portraitist; Diaries of M. Louise Baker 2011-10-20T20:53:53Z That’s when looser immigration laws coincided with the Cultural Revolution and prompted many to flee Hong Kong, including Man’s and my parents. Want fantastic Chinese food in North America? Head to Vancouver. 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z So the Cultural Revolution was important because it was the last attempt within that history to modify that in a revolutionary manner. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z Born in 1975, at the tail end of the Cultural Revolution, Ms. Ye became an activist after working in a karaoke bar and a massage parlor. Review: In ‘Hooligan Sparrow,’ a Chinese Activist’s Hair-Raising Defiance of the State 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z As one of the first archeologists trained after the Cultural Revolution, she had enviable contacts: many of her former classmates were working in China’s provincial museums and cultural bureaus. The China Institute?s Curator Has Connections 2010-03-20T04:40:00Z The 1996-1976 Cultural Revolution saw Communist China founding father Mao Zedong unleash often violent "red guards" on regular Chinese with suspected capitalistic sympathies. Zhang calls new film a back-to-basics romance 2010-10-07T12:40:00Z Her best book was "Red Azalea," a memoir of her experiences in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z You've characterized China as taking a long nap from the international community following the end of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Our parents’ generation grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution, and that was a hard life they experienced. Meet Chen Man, the ‘Chinese Annie Leibovitz’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The effect was as racy as a night out on the Shanghai Bund before the Cultural Revolution. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z Mr. Kissinger is even more chillingly cavalier about the tens of millions of people who lost their lives during Mao’s years in power and the devastating fallout of his Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Books of The Times: An Insider Views China, Past and Future 2011-05-09T19:59:38Z In 1959, two years after Mr. Ai was born, the family left Beijing for the remote countryside, beginning a forced exile that would last until the end of the Cultural Revolution. Art Review: A Beijing Bohemian in the East Village 2011-07-28T23:14:41Z It was adopted by Ian Smith as the national anthem of apartheid-prone Rhodesia, and was one of the few pieces of Western music condoned by the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z Two years later, during the Cultural Revolution, his father, Ai Qing, one of China’s best-known poets, was sent to be “re-educated” by cleaning toilets in a rural village. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey in Washington 2012-10-11T22:29:26Z Fifty years ago they told us we had to follow Chairman Mao’s words and join the Cultural Revolution with passion. In ?Spring Fever,? Lou Ye Confronts China?s Repression 2010-07-30T17:49:00Z Looming on the horizon a few decades ahead is the Cultural Revolution. A Fictional Heroine’s Fitful Upbringing Is Set Against the Sino-Japanese War 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “Of course, facing criticism for my misjudgment as a professor here is nothing like the experience that many Chinese professors faced during the Cultural Revolution,” he wrote. A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z “The Cultural Revolution was that catastrophe, and this is that boom.” Chinese Art Collectors Prove to Be a New Market Force 2011-09-06T21:55:05Z For example references to the Cultural Revolution are almost entirely omitted. Metropolitan Museum Collaborates With Chinese Museum 2013-01-31T22:17:21Z “There are some masters who think Hong Kong’s is the most authentic, because the Cultural Revolution disrupted traditions on the mainland,” Mr. Mao said. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z It always kept me at a certain distance from the overall radical politics of the Cultural Revolution. Beijing film festival: Marco Mueller back where his love of film began 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Thien captures painfully well the depersonalization and numbness of living through the Cultural Revolution, particularly the “day-to-day insincerity” of casual conversation, larded with perfunctory praise for the party and Chairman Mao. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z When she and her family were confined to a labor camp during the 1970s Cultural Revolution, she was unable to endure the work. ‘Our Time Machine’ Review: A Picture of the Past 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Some compare the country’s ubiquitous online searches to the vigilante meetings and punishments of the Cultural Revolution in 1960s China. ‘Caught in the Web,’ on Web Searches in China 2012-09-16T01:30:06Z “It’s not so much the Cultural Revolution but its aftermath: How do you repair your life and still pay the debt of the Cultural Revolution?” Cannes: For Zhang Yimou, a return to roots amid a turn to Hollywood 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The saxophone concerto “Xiaoxiang,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, was inspired by the tale of a villager whose husband was killed by a Communist official during the Cultural Revolution. For Composer Lei Liang, Technology Brings a Different Transcendence 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Dates are important here: 1966 marked the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution, with its campaigns against intellectuals, who were forced to do farm labor. Seattle Chinese Orchestra helps East meet West in April 20 concert 2012-04-11T22:31:05Z The analogy between the Holocaust and the Cultural Revolution is a bit stretched, Ms Zha says. In the heat of the sun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Filming Mao's China without discussing the Cultural Revolution may seem surprising. 11 Flowers - review 2012-05-22T13:01:46Z The Cultural Revolution is still a sensitive topic in China. Zhang calls new film a back-to-basics romance 2010-10-07T12:40:00Z He died in 1965, months before China’s Communist regime unleashed the Cultural Revolution, which aggressively persecuted the country’s writers, artists and other intelligentsia, sometimes unto death. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z We learn that in 1966, when Peanut was a child and the Cultural Revolution engulfed China, Red Guards beat and ridiculed his college-professor father, leaving him a broken man. Adam Brookes’s ‘Night Heron’ is a top-notch thriller about stolen secrets Mr. Yu said that the Shanghai Symphony was founded more than a century ago and operated through China’s periods of turmoil, including the arrival of Communist rule and the Cultural Revolution. Shanghai Symphony and Philharmonic to Play Great Lawn 2010-07-12T22:15:00Z But grands jetés and the Cultural Revolution are just exotic window dressing in “Mao’s Last Dancer,” which is, at heart, nothing more than an old-fashioned tear-jerker. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z The facing page, otherwise blank, contains the line “—During the Cultural Revolution, a boy saw his mother shot by a firing squad—.” Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Librarians told me that, although still listed in the old catalogue, it was most likely lost, along with so much else, during the Cultural Revolution. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z As a result, he said, “The Cultural Revolution years were the best education I received.” Little Sugarcoating in Cao Wenxuan’s Children’s Books 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Zedong, who honed his overbearing power with the inception of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, also oversaw years of mass political violence that killed approximately two million Chinese civilians. “The Simpsons” episode mysteriously censored in Hong Kong 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z His father, Ai Qing, was a revered poet who during the Cultural Revolution was persecuted by the government. 'Human Flow,' Ai Weiwei's feature-film debut, takes on the global refugee crisis 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Müller studied Mandarin while growing up in Rome, and went to China as an exchange student in 1976, at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Chinese Independent Filmmakers Look to Locarno Festival 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z For example, from the period when I grew up, with the Cultural Revolution as the background. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z Maybe this is from early childhood or a Cultural Revolution suffering memory. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z To Soviet leaders, the Ninth sounded like a Communist anthem; during the Cultural Revolution, it was one of the few Western works of music not banned in China. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z She and her husband, Qian Zhongshu, the author of the novel “Fortress Besieged,” were already acclaimed writers when Mao Zedong inaugurated the Cultural Revolution to root out ideological foes in 1966. Yang Jiang, Chinese Author and Translator, Dies at 104 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Zau Sinmay died in Shanghai at the height of the Cultural Revolution, after being charged with “complicated relationships” and imprisoned for three years. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z “Fengming” is the name of a woman—He Fengming, a victim of the Cultural Revolution, whose lucid and analytical memory is seared by unabated pain. What to Stream This Weekend: War Movies for Memorial Day 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z They didn't begin to experiment with style and form until foreign works began to appear in translation after the Cultural Revolution. 2009-12-31T18:18:00Z Another concerns two Chinese students who denounced their parents in the Cultural Revolution, with appalling consequences. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z “Mao’s Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution,” a China Institute exhibition organized by the art historian Alfreda Murck, perfectly captures the devotional fervor of that moment. When Mango Mania Was Revolutionary 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z In a century of war, famine and revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution sit as terrible indicators of what happens when a technocratic modernity is allied with a will to power. A new chapter in Chinese history 2011-07-15T15:53:27Z The movie’s most moving sequence is near the end, when Mr. Jia discusses his father, who faced awful hardships during the Cultural Revolution. Review: ‘Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,’ a Portrait of a Visionary Filmmaker 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Ai is the best artist to have appeared since the Cultural Revolution in China. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z The Cultural Revolution crushed that activity, but by the early 1970s a state-administered market was in place there as backup. Visitors Welcome 2011-06-22T22:00:00Z “Plus,” he added jokingly, “Bright grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China, and I grew up in L.A., so his will is stronger than mine.” An American Opera Company Adapts China’s ‘War and Peace’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z As someone whose life was upended by the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese director Zhang Yimou, 60, has every reason to be wary of politics. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z The chaotic years of the Cultural Revolution form the backdrop for many of his stories. Little Sugarcoating in Cao Wenxuan’s Children’s Books 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he served in the People’s Liberation Army and survived the Cultural Revolution. Book review: ‘A Map of Betrayal,’ by Ha Jin While Mr. Liu preferred collecting traditional Chinese artworks and objects, Ms. Wang focused on acquiring art from the Cultural Revolution era and, later, contemporary Chinese art and art from throughout Asia. With Modigliani Purchase, Chinese Billionaire Dreams of Bigger Canvas 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z What can you tell me about your personal experience of the Cultural Revolution? Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z It was, of course, the time of the Cultural Revolution. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z He suffered through the Cultural Revolution but is not openly political. Art Review: ‘Revolutionary Ink’: Wu Guanzhong Paintings at Asia Society 2012-07-19T21:09:29Z Another focuses on two Chinese students caught up in the Cultural Revolution, who were forced to denounce their parents, dedicated schoolteachers. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z For all his praise of Mao, it is very hard to imagine China’s president, Xi Jinping, launching another Cultural Revolution. In the heat of the sun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z "He was instrumental in reviving Chinese literary language after the Cultural Revolution," said Abrahamsen. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z Set against China's decade-long ultra-leftist Cultural Revolution, "Under the Hawthorn Tree" follows the relationship between a high school student sent to work in the countryside and a young geologist. Zhang calls new film a back-to-basics romance 2010-10-07T12:40:00Z Having read the book several times — first as a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, when it was banned — he understood the scale of the task. An American Opera Company Adapts China’s ‘War and Peace’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z He first emerged as an artist in the late 1970s, one of a group producing and exhibiting abstract work, which Cultural Revolution authorities deemed bourgeois and decadent. Critic’s Notebook: Pei-Shen Qian’s Paintings Examined 2013-12-30T22:57:08Z The artist’s words are accompanied by personal photographs, including those of his late father, Ai Qing, a poet who was exiled and sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution. 10 books to read in November 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Then, as the Cultural Revolution eased in the early ’70s, he re-emerged. Art Review: ‘Revolutionary Ink’: Wu Guanzhong Paintings at Asia Society 2012-07-19T21:09:29Z China’s lack of exposure to essential operatic languages or stagecraft is a byproduct of the Cultural Revolution. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Jin, a National Book Award-winning writer, is most known for his fiction, which is largely set in China during the Cultural Revolution and in Chinese immigrant communities in the U.S. Ha Jin’s Self-Revealing Study of The Chinese Poet Li Bai 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z This pointless dissipation of energy and talent perfectly describes the horrors that befell classical musicians during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z He is one of the most fascinating characters in the novel, the son of two artists who fell out of favor during the Cultural Revolution. Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Also, the public was scooping up the “seeds” — symbolically both the children of Mao Zedong and a primary foodstuff during the Cultural Revolution — by the bucketful. | Fair Trade-Off: Frieze Week in London 2010-10-18T21:47:00Z Its haul was nearly double the No. 2 film, “Coming Home,” renown director Zhang Yimou’s tale of a family trying to put itself back together again after the Cultural Revolution. 'X-Men' crushes foes at China box office, scores $38 million weekend 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, amid the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Wu’s father, a local government official, was imprisoned on a spurious treason charge. Wu Tianming, Film Director Who Reshaped Chinese Cinema, Dies at 74 2014-03-25T04:23:02Z The stained-glass windows and handmade pipe organ were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Pursuits: A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter 2014-05-02T18:00:05Z In the historical novel “Under Fishbone Clouds” one character pauses to contemplate the failure of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution and its grandiose plans to change the world. Books of The Times: Dumplings With the Kitchen God 2010-12-08T23:25:00Z And there are several possible entry points to the table, beginning in the Costume Center, which breaks the chronology of modern China into eras: late empire, new Republic and Cultural Revolution. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The Jianchuan Museum Cluster in Sichuan is an unusual private collection of 8m artefacts amassed by a businessman and concerned chiefly with the Cultural Revolution and the war against Japan. Vaut le détour 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “The Cultural Revolution killed millions and mangled China’s economy,” she writes. The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The daughter of an army platoon leader who later held a high-ranking position in the state housing authority, Guo Pei was born in Beijing in 1967, at the start of the Cultural Revolution. T Magazine: Year of the Couturi?re 2010-12-01T17:25:00Z As the Cultural Revolution subsided, Ms. Yang returned to Beijing to work on “Don Quixote.” Yang Jiang, Chinese Author and Translator, Dies at 104 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z A lot of those values, he says, were lost when the Cultural Revolution swept through China, with its practice of "destroying the four olds" — customs, cultures, habits and ideas. Shen Yun dance troupe sheds light on Falun Gong 2010-12-28T00:15:13Z “My father experienced the Cultural Revolution,” he said. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z He taught at several universities and art schools, before and after the Cultural Revolution, most recently Tsinghua University in Beijing. Wu Guanzhong, Leading Chinese Painter, Dies at 90 2010-06-29T23:12:00Z He was isolated by China’s Cultural Revolution, laws and politics. Meet Yang Li, a designer putting China on fashion’s biggest stage His family were farmers, but during the Cultural Revolution he went to work in a factory and then joined the Army. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z For this generation of artists, Chinese identity is a completely different experience from what it was for the previous generation, which suffered through the isolation and repression of the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976. Think You Know China? ‘Tales of Our Time’ Will Make You Think Again 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But when Mao’s Great Leap Forward was followed by the Cultural Revolution, these players would pay for their privileges. Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin 2014-01-02T22:23:15Z A new history of the period by Frank Dikötter of the University of Hong Kong describes the Cultural Revolution as “an old man settling personal scores at the end of his life”. In the heat of the sun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z He was raised in the teeth of the Cultural Revolution, the son of a poet who fell foul of the party. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z In 1968, two years after he began the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong wrested it from the hands of avid but unruly students and handed it over to a more worshipful working class. When Mango Mania Was Revolutionary 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z As part of India, the region was shielded from the ravages of China’s Cultural Revolution, which wreaked so much havoc in neighboring Tibet. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one The book is set during the Cultural Revolution when humans establish contact with an alien civilization on the edge of extinction. Republican senators push back against Netflix over "Game of Thrones" creators' new series 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Overcoming ingrained color meanings was a problem members of the Red Guard encountered during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, said Professor Cheng, when they launched an ad hoc effort to change the meaning of stoplight colors. The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The next quarter-century would witness the flourishing of Chinese contemporary art, and then the arrival of a new president more powerful than any since the Cultural Revolution. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, a number of promising young Chinese composers immigrated to the U.S. in the wake of China’s Cultural Revolution. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, his father, a professor of history at Peking University, was banished from his position, and Mr. Xu was sent to the countryside. Xu Bing Installs His Sculptures at St. John the Divine 2014-02-14T22:56:02Z The tale of a Beijing student sent to work as a shepherd in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution went on to bag the first Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007. 2009-12-31T18:18:00Z “At that time, it was not allowed,” she said, referring to the Cultural Revolution, when people wore drab Soviet-inspired uniforms. In rural China, elderly transgender Sister Liu longs for family life 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Discovering what lies behind the deaths involves uncovering a conspiracy that dates to the Cultural Revolution; it also involves Wang’s frequently donning virtual-reality gear to play an elaborate, cosmically expansive video game. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Widely judged a musical and political success, the historic two-week visit by the "Fabulous Philadelphians" helped initiate the return of Western culture to China at the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Philadelphia Orchestra, China announce partnership 2011-09-22T19:07:07Z He spent part of his childhood in exile when his father, the poet Ai Qing, was sent to the Gobi during the Cultural Revolution. Inside Art: Sotheby?s as a Gallery; an Ai Weiwei at Duke 2011-10-20T20:29:19Z Of course, the reason you were 10 years older than everyone else was that your education was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z “These were not all destroyed in the Cultural Revolution,” he said, referring to the 1966-76 political campaign, when Red Guards defaced the tombs of Confucius and his descendents. Music Bridges the Political Divide in China 2010-04-20T11:55:00Z Ms. Li was born in the full heat of the Cultural Revolution, but by the time she was learning to read, some foreign literature was again becoming available. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z During the Cultural Revolution, with Mao, she was the most powerful figure in China, responsible for millions of people’s deaths. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z You grew up during China's Cultural Revolution and now live in New York and Shanghai. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The story’s bleakness, its motifs of environmental destruction and the possibility of human extinction give it resonance, as does its allegory of the despair and vengefulness fostered by the Cultural Revolution. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In Chinese, the term “gang,” or “bang,” has had a deeply negative historical connotation, due largely to the Gang of Four that presided over the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. A Most Rare Vision: Shakespeare in China 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z As part of India, the region was shielded from the ravages of China’s Cultural Revolution, which wreaked so much havoc in neighboring Tibet. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Li rose from relatively humble roots to attend prestigious Peking University following the end of the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution and rose steadily up the ranks, holding several high provincial offices before being transferred to Beijing. Crowds gather near funeral home, lay flowers as former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is laid to rest 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Li was born in Anhui province in eastern China, a poor farming area where his father was an official and where he was sent to work in the fields during the Cultural Revolution. China's ex-premier Li Keqiang, sidelined by Xi Jinping, dies at 68 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z He was accepted into the prestigious Peking University Law School soon after the universities were reopened following Chairman Mao's disastrous Cultural Revolution. Why Li Keqiang's death is dangerous for Xi Jinping 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Li was born in Anhui province in eastern China, a poor farming area where his father was an official and where he was sent to toil in the fields during the Cultural Revolution. China ex-Premier Li Keqiang, sidelined by Xi Jinping, dies at 68 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z One of eight children, she was born just several years before China's Cultural Revolution, which plunged the country into nearly a decade of chaos and bloodshed. Can Xue: The Chinese author who could win the Nobel prize 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z He cited a document that the party issued after the Cultural Revolution admitting some of its mistakes under Mao Zedong’s leadership from 1949 to 1976. Beijing Offers Love, but Chinese Entrepreneurs Aren’t Buying It 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The couple and their daughter were reunited when Mr. Yan was released from prison in 1975 as Mao’s Cultural Revolution waned. Yan Mingfu, Mao’s Interpreter and Tiananmen Negotiator, Dies at 91 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The tests have been the focal point of the country's education system since the 1950s, although they were suspended during the Cultural Revolution. Chinese millionaire fails 27th attempt at passing university entrance exams 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Then, after the Communist takeover, officials began to attack religion as counterrevolutionary, especially during the 1966-1976 period of political upheaval known as the Cultural Revolution. As China Cracks Down on Mosque Domes, One Town Pushes Back 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z But that all changed when the Cultural Revolution happened - a campaign launched by then-leader Mao Zedong to remove capitalist, traditional and cultural elements that were seen as anti-communist from society. Can Xue: The Chinese author who could win the Nobel prize 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z In the 1990s and 2000s, the party felt that it needed a vibrant economy to rebuild its legitimacy after the Cultural Revolution and the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protesters. Beijing Offers Love, but Chinese Entrepreneurs Aren’t Buying It 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z President Xi Jinping repeatedly exhorted young people to "seek hardships" in a recent state media article emphasising his suffering during the Cultural Revolution. Chinese graduates lower their ambitions in moribund jobs market 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Mao Zedong sent more than 16 million urban youth, including Mr. Xi, to toil in the fields of the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z After the Cultural Revolution, as China opened to the world, the government apologized for the massacre. As China Cracks Down on Mosque Domes, One Town Pushes Back 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Part of the second generation of composers from China following the end of the Cultural Revolution, Wang draws on a wide spectrum of influences and personal inspirations. Seattle Modern Orchestra presents world premiere by acclaimed composer 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z While the party has long regulated the arts — one target of the Cultural Revolution was creative work deemed insufficiently “revolutionary” — the intensity has increased sharply under Mr. Xi. As China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Culture, the Show Does Not Go On 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z In July 1966 he launched the event known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The return of these jobless young people to cities after the Cultural Revolution, in part, forced the party to embrace self-employment, or jobs outside the state planned economy. China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z She grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, and her parents, both academics, had suffered. The Undoing of Guo Wengui, Billionaire Accused of Fraud on 2 Continents 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z His family background, however, put him under the grip of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, launched in 1966 against foreign influence and others deemed potential enemies of the state. Jiang Yanyong, doctor who exposed China’s SARS coverup, dies at 91 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Still, he comes from a humble background, enrolling at the elite Peking University after spending several years in the countryside during Mao Zedong's "Cultural Revolution". 'Steady hand': China surprisingly retains central bank chief 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z No one knows how many were killed during the Cultural Revolution; it may have been as many as two million. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He has also repeatedly urged the young people to “seek self-inflicted hardships,” using his own experience of working in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Introduced to politics during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, he made it into prestigious Peking University, where he studied law and economics, on his own merits rather than through political connections. China Premier Li Keqiang bows out as Xi loyalists take reins 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z A bright economist who graduated from Peking University just after the Cultural Revolution, Li Keqiang rose through the ranks of the Party via the Communist Youth League, a rival power bloc. Xi Jinping is unveiling a new deputy - why it matters 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Who takes care of the elderly in China, where pensions are tiny, is one of the major headaches policymakers face as they deal with the first demographic downturn since Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. Analysis: As China ages, investors bet they can beat retirement home stigma 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z In 1977, Deng Xiaoping returned to a place of prominence in the Chinese government after being ousted from power during the Cultural Revolution. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The country’s GDP last year grew just 3 percent, a stark departure from growth of over 8 percent in 2021 — and its lowest level since 1976, the year that Mao Zedong’s disastrous Cultural Revolution ended. China’s economic recovery hinges on consumers. They’re not spending. 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z It appears to have escaped their attention that the Great Cultural Revolution was still going on in the country they idealized, resulting in roughly 1.5 million dead from government-inspired violence. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z But China, distracted by the internal turmoil of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, was too late - and ended up with no real land. Holding out against China in a row over reefs 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The chaos and trauma of the Cultural Revolution in mainland China eventually turned Mr. Shih against communism, and he later found success selling real estate. Golf Course or Housing? A Patch of Green Divides Hong Kong 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Many died in the resulting famine and in the Cultural Revolution that followed. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Li compared China’s zero-covid directive to past political campaigns like Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution. Why China dumped its ‘zero covid’ policy so suddenly — and disastrously 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z They became known as "little pinks", a term associated with the colour of a nationalist website, and drew comparisons with China's aggressive "wolf warrior" diplomats and the Red Guards of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. China's pessimistic Gen Z poses challenge for Xi post-COVID 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Another left China during the Cultural Revolution as a “freedom swimmer,” paddling for hours from Guangdong to reach the colony of Macao. Review | How much does our food tell us about who we are? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “Cold Wind” is about her family’s experience during the Cultural Revolution. She Witnessed Mao’s Worst Excesses. Now She Has a Warning for the World. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The Chinese system of higher education returned to normal as Deng reinstated entrance examinations, which had been suspended during the Cultural Revolution. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Not after more than 20 million people starved to death during the disastrous Great Leap Forward, nor when the country was thrown into a decade of chaos and economic destruction by the Cultural Revolution. Traumatized by Covid, but Ruled by a Party That Never Apologizes 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “We want reform, not Cultural Revolution. We want freedom, not lockdowns. We want votes, not a ruler. We want dignity, not lies. We are citizens, not slaves.” China’s Protest Prophet 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The city then had just a few hundred thousand people, but Mr. Chen, who had endured famine and the Cultural Revolution, believed in Mr. Deng’s vision. The Chinese Dream, Denied 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z A period of relative calm was soon disrupted by the Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966 and raged for nearly a decade. China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who ruled after Tiananmen, dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z It has been compared to earlier communist drives like the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s. China doubles down on harsh COVID controls and tries to end protests 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The party even killed a literary genre called “scar literature,” which emerged after the Cultural Revolution in late 1970s and portrayed the sufferings that people endured during that political campaign. Traumatized by Covid, but Ruled by a Party That Never Apologizes 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “We want to eat, not do coronavirus tests; reform, not the Cultural Revolution,” read one recent banner. Opinion | Don’t let China stage another Tiananmen massacre 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z “Claims that family members were presented with the bullet date back to Cultural Revolution times, so they could be considered historical, but it is not something Amnesty has documented — especially not in recent decades.” Analysis | The debunked claims and faux ‘facts’ supporting Trump’s plan to execute drug dealers 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Born to well-educated parents — his father was an engineer, his mother a teacher — he was 10 when Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution. China’s Chest-Thumping Nationalism Now Goes Too Far, Movement’s Godfather Says 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Peng’s second banner read: “We want to eat, not do coronavirus tests; reform, not the Cultural Revolution. We want freedom, not lockdowns; elections, not rulers. We want dignity, not lies. Be citizens, not enslaved people.” Opinion | For China, Xi’s coronavirus policy is a great leap backward 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, public "struggle sessions" saw people who were labelled "class enemies" were humiliated and often violently attacked by mobs of Mao supporters. What these buzzwords say about Xi's China 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z A young historian planning to teach a class about contemporary Chinese history, including sensitive periods like the Cultural Revolution. ‘Moving Backward’: In Xi’s China, Some See an Era of Total Control 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z He was paralysed from the waist down after mysteriously falling from a Peking University building in 1968 at the height of the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution unleashed by Mao. China ex-official Zhang makes first appearance since sexual assault claim 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z After the Cultural Revolution ended, Mr. Wang enrolled at Beijing’s prestigious Peking University to study math — an educational pedigree this unapologetic elitist frequently invokes. China’s Chest-Thumping Nationalism Now Goes Too Far, Movement’s Godfather Says 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In one of history’s more fateful ironic twists, the younger Xi survived the Cultural Revolution and emerged more committed to Communism. Opinion | For China, Xi’s coronavirus policy is a great leap backward 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z “It is very different from the China I imagined 30 years ago,” he said, “but it isn’t a simple reversion back to the Cultural Revolution, nor a move towards Western democracy.” Observer: No matter who climbs Beijing’s ranks, Xi rules 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z For two years, she had no problems from the authorities, even though she taught one of few classes in China about the Cultural Revolution. ‘Moving Backward’: In Xi’s China, Some See an Era of Total Control 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z It was during the tumultuous years of Mao’s Cultural Revolution that Mr. Xi began his pathway to power. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Then came the chaos of the Cultural Revolution when a paranoid Mao tried to purge his rivals in the party. China anniversary: How the Communist Party runs the country 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Among her earliest memories is her mother being taken away by Red Guards; both her mother and father were forced into reeducation during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. A new anti-communism museum in D.C. tallies 100 million victims of Marx’s ideology 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z “The Rupture Tense,” already on the poetry longlist for the National Book Award, was partly inspired by a hidden photo archive of China’s Cultural Revolution. Your Tuesday Briefing: Britain Buries Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile mainland China was swept by political turmoil including the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. Queen Elizabeth II: Hong Kong's grief sends message to Beijing 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution was the last of Mao’s mass communist campaigns, such as the disastrous Great Leap Forward. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The rise of Deng Xiaoping, a party leader who had been targeted during the Cultural Revolution, brought major economic reforms and eventually meteoric growth. China anniversary: How the Communist Party runs the country 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Cold War dynamics eventually yielded to more pragmatic ties in the 1980s and 1990s, as Taiwan democratized and China opened up its economy following the self-inflicted devastation of the Cultural Revolution. Ahead of Pelosi’s Expected Trip, Quiet Defiance in Taiwan 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “The Golden Age” is a novel of lust and loss set in China during the Cultural Revolution. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the most politically despised people were classified into “Five Black Categories.” Opinion | How jailed Hong Kong protesters are subjected to ‘thought work’ 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution was aimed at rooting out party officials deemed “rightist,” but ended up nearly destroying the nation. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Zhang’s sculptures combine influences from his upbringing in China during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution and California funk art from his time in the Bay Area. 7 works to see at the 2022 Seattle Art Fair 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z When I went to art school, the Cultural Revolution in China had just ended. Art School Confidential 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z He received a request in 1980 to act as a defense lawyer for the Gang of Four and other former officials facing trial over their role in the extremes of the Cultural Revolution. Zhang Sizhi, Lawyer Who Defended Chinese Dissidents, Dies at 94 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Even now, amid the pandemic, political division and hate crimes, Mei’s description of the Cultural Revolution does not sound so removed from our daily American reality. Review | ‘Forbidden City’ gives voice to a history meant to be buried 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The official death toll from the Cultural Revolution remains a state secret. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z After each paroxysm in China — the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Communist takeover, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen massacre — Hong Kong’s population swelled with refugees. ‘Everything in Hong Kong Has Changed’: A Road to Reinvention 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z After its 10-year closure during the Cultural Revolution, it started admitting students again and welcomed applications from the cream of the crop across the nation. Art School Confidential 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z More experienced lawyers had refused the high-pressure job; Mr. Zhang agreed, though he loathed the Cultural Revolution. Zhang Sizhi, Lawyer Who Defended Chinese Dissidents, Dies at 94 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z China put its first satellite into orbit in 1970 - as it went through massive disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution. How China plans to become the next big space power 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Aside from the savagery, the Cultural Revolution severely diminished China’s overall development as the economy and society ground to a halt. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z That year marked China’s emergence from its catastrophic Cultural Revolution decade. U.S. economy projected to outpace China’s for first time since 1976 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “Within four years Mao launched an even deadlier power struggle called the Cultural Revolution that removed all those Communist leaders who had forced him to step aside,” Mr. Yu said. Rumors swirl that China’s Xi Jinping will step down amid harsh COVID lockdowns 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z What it all adds up to, Lindsay argues, is an attempt "to recreate the psychological destruction of children" that Chinese leader Mao Zedong undertook in the 1960s Cultural Revolution. What is "social emotional learning" — and how did it become the right's new CRT panic? 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z And you might think of Cambodia later, with Pol Pot, or Mao's Cultural Revolution. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Deng, who was temporarily purged during the Cultural Revolution, also adopted a strategy called “hide and bide,” concealing China’s goals and biding time while the country modernized. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z As a teenager in northwestern China during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, Yu Bin was drafted into the army, where for four years his training focused on how to repel a feared Russian invasion. China and Russia’s military relationship likely to deepen with Ukraine war 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The Red Guards led a major uprising known as the Cultural Revolution. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time of Nixon’s overtures, Roy noted, China was in the midst of a tumultuous Cultural Revolution marked by political instability, violence and chaos. Nixon library marks 50 years of U.S.-China relations amid low point for diplomacy 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z After all, China had just lived through the traumatic Cultural Revolution and had been conditioned to view Americans as bourgeois capitalist “running dogs.” One American life, set on new course by Nixon’s China visit 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Unlike other Chinese communists who turned away from hard-core Maoism after the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Xi appears to have embraced the punishment and humiliation Mao used to maintain personal power under communist ideology. Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z And the bloody upheaval of his Cultural Revolution of the 1960s may have killed a million more, historians believe. China was a brutal communist menace. In 1972, Richard Nixon visited, anyway. 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z By 1968, even Mao admitted that the Cultural Revolution had to stop. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But Meng, one of millions of urban Chinese youths sent to work in fields and factories in the depths of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, brought along his ice skates and a passion for the pastime. At Winter Games, a Hard-Bitten Chinese Coal Town Hunts for Gold 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The chaos and violence of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution and the decline of the Soviet Union had already impressed on the ruling party that political stability should be maintained at whatever cost. From Tiananmen to Hong Kong, China’s crackdowns defy critics 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The son of two mathematics teachers who were sent to teach on farms during China’s Cultural Revolution, Dr. Chen grew up without any hope of becoming a scientist. ‘In the End, You’re Treated Like a Spy,’ Says M.I.T. Scientist 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Mao unleashed the Cultural Revolution to destroy naysayers and enemies of the Party. The American Mao: Donald Trump has led the Republican Party into a cultural revolution 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Instead of saving radical communism, however, the Cultural Revolution turned many people against it. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He migrated to China in 1966 to attend school, only to wind up living amid the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. In China, Tesla Is a Catfish, and Turns Auto Companies Into Sharks 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Mao led China through its Cultural Revolution, and a devastating famine that killed many millions of people. The Simpsons: Tiananmen episode not found in Hong Kong 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z He belongs to a generation of officials who rose after the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, taking on the self-effacing ethos of collective leadership under Hu Jintao, who preceded the country’s current leader, Xi Jinping. Peng Shuai’s Accusation Pierced the Privileged Citadel of Chinese Politics 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z In China, the Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966 until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and was aimed at removing Mao's rivals in the Party, government, schools and workplaces. The American Mao: Donald Trump has led the Republican Party into a cultural revolution 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, he had tried to restrain the radicals. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It includes Mao, but makes no mention of the Cultural Revolution or the tens of millions of Chinese who died from Mao’s mistakes. Xi Jinping thinks the West is done 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z China has historically oscillated between international engagement and isolation, such as when Mao Zedong largely shut China off from the world in the 1960s during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Covid pushed China away from the world stage. But its global ambitions persist. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z He began studying economics at Xiamen University in Fujian, but his education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, when Mao Zedong largely shut down university classes. Peng Shuai’s Accusation Pierced the Privileged Citadel of Chinese Politics 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The 1966-76 Cultural Revolution saw politicians, educators and musicians locked up for years without charge, often in solitary confinement. EXPLAINER: What drives high-profile disappearances in China 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Throughout the Cultural Revolution, China played almost no role in world affairs. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His own resolution emphasised the importance of "collective leadership" after the Maoist excesses of the Cultural Revolution. China condemns 'money worship', corruption of reform era in key document 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It is precisely what Deng, mindful of the tumult and violence of the recently ended Cultural Revolution, had tried to prevent by instituting 10-year term limits for Chinese leaders in the 1980s. Xi Jinping ensures his future with a resolution that rewrites China's past 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Prof Yu, who considers himself a child of the Cultural Revolution, finds this notion ludicrous. The man turning cities into giant sponges to embrace floods 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z These encounters raised worries that Xi was returning to the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution. Opinion | Xi’s heavy-handed reforms of China’s tech sector could have an upside for the U.S. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z They jailed several of the radicals who had led the Cultural Revolution. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z During China’s torturous Cultural Revolution, Liu was forced to burn scores of family photographs — their embedded memories going up in smoke — for fear of unacceptable social imagery. 11 books your creative friends actually will want on their coffee table 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Even so, as the Cultural Revolution raged on into the 1970s, Ai Qing decided his expansive book collection might put the family in jeopardy. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on his memoir, his persecution and 'why autocracy fears art' 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Shum was born in Shanghai in 1968 at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong’s campaign to remake China through a revolutionary baptism. Review | An insider’s view of China’s Communist Party: Corruption and capitalist excess 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z His 1993 historical drama “Farewell My Concubine,” set in late republican China through to the Cultural Revolution, was initially banned in China, despite being a critical success internationally. Americans vanquished, China triumphant: 2021’s hit war epic doesn’t fit Hollywood script 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z They pledged their devotion to Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Liu could never entirely leave the Cultural Revolution behind, she was able to symbolically obliterate its architect. At the Smithsonian, Hung Liu’s portraits offer remembrance of and resistance to Mao’s cultural revolution 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Michelle Goldberg is right: It’s absurd to compare several hundred episodes of intolerance on our campuses to the horrors of Stalinism or the Cultural Revolution. Opinion | Cancel Culture: Are We Overreacting? 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z At that time, Mao Zedong had unleashed the Cultural Revolution, and life was upended for many Uyghurs, the mostly Muslim ethnic group in Xinjiang that included Ibrahim’s parents. Afghan Uyghurs Fear Deportation as Taliban Cozy Up to China 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Anyone who has visited China over the past several decades has heard anguished stories from Chinese friends about the results of Mao Zedong’s social engineering in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Opinion | Xi Jinping’s disturbing Maoist turn 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z When Mr. Li studied law in Beijing in the late 1970s, the country had just emerged from the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. ‘Reversing Gears’: China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s, as some Western artists and intellectuals flirted with Maoism, Hung Liu joined Mao’s Cultural Revolution — but not by choice. At the Smithsonian, Hung Liu’s portraits offer remembrance of and resistance to Mao’s cultural revolution 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The commentary sparked anxiety about whether a second Cultural Revolution was coming. China is purging celebrities and tech billionaires. But the problem is bigger than 'sissy men' 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z A former philosophy professor, Guzman was a lifelong communist who traveled to China in the late 1960s and was awed by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z This humiliation of a senior official was an echo of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which eviscerated China’s educated middle class in the 1970s. Opinion | Xi Jinping’s disturbing Maoist turn 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Some critics pointed ominously to echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, which had also emerged from attacks on the cultural elite by polemicists who were previously little known. Incendiary Essay Ignites Guessing Over Xi’s Plans for China 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The essay, picked up by China’s state media outlets, prompted comparisons with a 1965 article that launched China’s chaotic decade-long Cultural Revolution, and left even some in the party establishment worried. Xi Jinping’s crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z That prompted questions about whether Beijing might veer into an ideological campaign with echoes of the violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, in which some 5 million people were killed. China chases ‘rejuvenation’ with control of tycoons, society 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The essay went viral on Chinese social media sparking comments that a new Cultural Revolution may be in the offing. Chinese media accuse U.S. of biological warfare 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z According to Ms. Liu, censors objected to nine works slated to appear in the exhibit, among them a self-portrait that depicted her carrying a rifle at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Hung Liu, Chinese American artist who elevated the poor and forgotten, dies at 73 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z There is no evidence that China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, or other senior officials pushed Mr. Li’s essay, and China is unlikely to tip into the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution era. Incendiary Essay Ignites Guessing Over Xi’s Plans for China 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Mental health resources in China have grown since the Cultural Revolution, when mental illness was dismissed as bourgeois delusion. China’s mental health system has long been inadequate. Can AI change that? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “The Cultural Revolution was a period of chaos, purposely unleashed by Mao because he felt comfortable in chaos,” Nathan said. China chases ‘rejuvenation’ with control of tycoons, society 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The 10-year “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” begun in 1966 was meant by Mao Zedong to purge capitalist elements from within the Communist Party. Chinese media accuse U.S. of biological warfare 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z They still had family on the mainland, would travel to their ancestral home for tomb-sweeping rituals and had donated goods and food to their poorer cousins during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Is Taiwan Next? 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Gu Wanming, a retired journalist who worked for Xinhua, China’s main news agency, warned that Mr. Li’s used the kind of storming rhetoric “that could only be heard 60 years ago in the Cultural Revolution.” Incendiary Essay Ignites Guessing Over Xi’s Plans for China 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Badges showing Mao's profile were worn by hundreds of millions of people in the 1960s to show their loyalty to the Communist Party chairman and the ultra-radical Cultural Revolution he launched in 1966. Chinese Olympic gold medalists’ Mao pins subject of IOC probe 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z They were worn during the Cultural Revolution to show loyalty to Mao, but remain commonplace today. Chinese gold medallists face investigation over Mao badges 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Hu also said Mr. Li had evoked “certain historical memories and potentially triggering ideological confusion and panic” — an apparent reference to the Cultural Revolution. Chinese media accuse U.S. of biological warfare 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Badges showing Mao’s profile were worn by hundreds of millions of people in the 1960s to show their loyalty to the Communist Party chairman and the ultra-radical Cultural Revolution he launched in 1966. Mao pins worn by Chinese athletes may test Olympic rules 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z For decades, Yu Ruxin, a businessman turned independent historian, scoured used book stalls across China for frayed, yellowing documents about the Cultural Revolution, a decade of mass political upheaval unleashed by Mao Zedong. Rescuing China’s Muzzled Past, One Footnote at a Time 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z These decades encompassed the early years of the People's Republic of China, Mao's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution and, finally, Deng Xiaoping's reforms. The history of animal-based medicine in China 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Many reference the Cultural Revolution, and one calls their move "ignorant", possibly factoring in that many are still alive, and don't think favourably of that era. Chinese gold medallists face investigation over Mao badges 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Walter Liu, a sophomore at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., connected the debate to the harm done to his grandfather during the 1960s Cultural Revolution in China. Perspective | Let’s celebrate Florida’s critical race theory student survey 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z In modern China, music and dance from the Cultural Revolution still resonates with the public, including works such as the “Yellow River Piano Concerto” and “The Red Detachment of Women,” a revolutionary ballet. China’s Communist Party Turns 100. Cue the (State-Approved) Music. 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The fruit of his long quest was published in Hong Kong this month, a 1,354-page history that sheds new light on the central role of the military during the Cultural Revolution. Rescuing China’s Muzzled Past, One Footnote at a Time 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z During the purges and upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the export of luxury medicines such as rhino horn were scaled up to generate much-needed revenue. The history of animal-based medicine in China 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z “Like, the Cultural Revolution was a mistake. The Great Leap Forward was a mistake. And they corrected course.” Pictures From a Revolution: China’s Communists Mark a Centennial 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Predictably, he made no mention in his speech of China’s setbacks over the decades of Communist Party rule, such as Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the deadly crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Marking Party’s Centennial, Xi Warns That China Will Not Be Bullied 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z But he wanted China to learn from its mistakes, such as its cruel treatment of the moneyed and educated classes during the Cultural Revolution. As China Scrutinizes Its Entrepreneurs, a Power Couple Cashes Out 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Yu, 70, said he was not an opponent of the party, but that China should allow a candid accounting of the Cultural Revolution, when 1.6 million people were killed, by some experts’ estimates. Rescuing China’s Muzzled Past, One Footnote at a Time 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z A Virginia mom who endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory. Virginia mom who survived Maoist China eviscerates school board's critical race theory push 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z In 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution with a directive warning that “revisionists” were trying to overthrow the Communist Party state. Pictures From a Revolution: China’s Communists Mark a Centennial 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In the wake of the famine came the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long period of upheaval in which perceived foes of Mao were persecuted or killed. Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The heartfelt tribute includes details of Wen’s mother’s struggle during periods of upheaval in China, including the second Sino-Japanese War and the political purges of the Cultural Revolution. China censors article by former premier amid tightening internet controls 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “The role of the military in the Cultural Revolution was much bigger than the Red Guards and lasted much longer,” Mr. Yu said. Rescuing China’s Muzzled Past, One Footnote at a Time 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z "This is indeed the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution," she said. Virginia mom who survived Maoist China eviscerates school board's critical race theory push 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Pierre Cardin, the French designer, reintroduced fashion with his first show in Beijing in 1979, bringing color and flair to a nation that during the Cultural Revolution wore blue and gray. As China Targets H&M and Nike, Local Brands See Their Chance 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In an email, Schmalzer said that during the Cultural Revolution, “the radical politics favored emphasizing the collective nature of the research, including the important contributions of peasant technicians.” Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z China was still in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, and there were plenty of stares for everyone, including one of Bochenski’ s long-haired teammates who quickly became a Chinese favorite. Column: Ping Pong Diplomacy resonates a half century later 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The author of “The Day the Sun Died” and winner of the Franz Kafka Prize writes about the experiences of members of his family as they struggled with poverty during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We made it through a long winter. Greet spring with a fresh paperback (or 6) 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z A similar skepticism often greets these routine, rote pronouncements that skeptics say smack of a conformity akin to Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. ‘So much shame’: Woke left-wingers increasingly embarrassed over White ‘privileged’ status 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z For this child of the Cultural Revolution, who unsurprisingly wins his campaign to become village director, the authoritative validity of that sentence is everything. Review: 'Lost Course' puts us on the inside of a small Chinese village's big protest 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s, roving bands of Red Guards devoted to Mao Zedong destroyed mosques in Utsul villages, as they did across China. China’s Crackdown on Muslims Extends to a Resort Island 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z There’s also a sober flashback to Pong’s Chinese childhood during the Cultural Revolution that feels as if it comes from a totally different book. ‘My Year Abroad,’ the latest from Pulitzer finalist Chang-rae Lee, doesn’t meet its potential 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Born in China’s southern Guangzhou province, he became a member of the Big Circle Gang, a Triad-like organisation founded by disillusioned Red Guards at the end of the Cultural Revolution, police sources have told Reuters. Explainer: The arrest of Asia's 'most-wanted' drug boss 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Zhu grew up in the 1980s, a politically open era in China, when teachers at times touched on concepts like democracy and freedom of speech after the disastrous tumult of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Year after lockdown, Wuhan dissident more isolated than ever 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Immediately after the Cultural Revolution, the so-called scar literature — memoir-style novels by those who suffered during that troubled time — became a popular genre. How Beijing Turned China’s Covid-19 Tragedy to Its Advantage 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The attacks she says remind her of the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, a period of violent mob rule which led to the purging of intellectuals and "class enemies", including people with ties to the West. Fang Fang: Author vilified for Wuhan Diary speaks out a year on 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z A century later, during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when Uighur writers were imprisoned and their books burned, folk poets sustained their art by memory and word of mouth. Opinion | China Disappeared My Professor. It Can’t Silence His Poetry. 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z While at Chinese Communist Party headquarters in Yanan, Mr. Topping watched peasant folk dances with Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, who was later a driving force in the murderous purge dubbed the Cultural Revolution. Seymour Topping, high-powered foreign correspondent and editor, dies at 98 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Joshua Wong, a student activist, said the hotline carried disturbing echoes of one of mainland China’s most turbulent periods, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Hong Kong police launch hotline for residents to inform on each other 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z But in the book, and in a 1984 sequel, “Return to a Chinese Village,” Mr. Myrdal showed little skepticism toward Mao’s “Cultural Revolution,” marked by widespread persecution and massacres. Jan Myrdal, radical and rebellious Swedish writer, dies at 93 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Later, many of the prisoners who chose return to China were attacked as suspected traitors during the Cultural Revolution. Amid U.S. election, China uses war stories to rally long-term resistance to Washington 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z He survived purges and the Cultural Revolution, and thus was able to pursue an extraordinary career. Qian Xuesen: The scientist deported from the US who helped China into space 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The 2000 event was marked by a domestic emphasis on rehabilitating veterans who were discredited during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. China, and Xi, commemorate the Korean War as victory over United States 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z But for him and many liberal intellectuals, returning to university in 1977, after Mao died and the Cultural Revolution ended, sparked a painstaking reassessment. Dreams of a Red Emperor: The relentless rise of Xi Jinping 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z As a child growing up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, Wang would listen to Mao Zedong’s speeches through a loudspeaker in kindergarten. This biologist helped trace SARS to bats. Now, he's working to uncover the origins of COVID-19 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z “This is the lowest number since the Cultural Revolution, when fewer than 3,000 mosques remained,” the report said. Thousands of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged, report finds 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Lily Tang Williams, an immigrant from China who lives in New Hampshire, personally experienced Chairman Mao’s economic policies and “Cultural Revolution.” Refugees from socialist countries warn Americans: Don't let it happen here 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Politically sensitive books, including those authored by pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong, as well as titles related to the Tiananmen Square massacre or the Cultural Revolution, are being pulled from library shelves. China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z But growth this year, pummeled by the coronavirus crisis, is likely to slow to its weakest pace since 1976 - the final year of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Reform hopes rise as China focuses on inward economic shift 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z They also drew comparisons between USC’s actions and those seen in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. USC professor removed from course after using Chinese phrase with pronunciation similar to N-word 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z She was born into the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution, and her mother listed her as an Uzbek, even though older siblings were officially Uighurs. Muslim teacher, 50, tells of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The plot of the saga spans from China's Cultural Revolution to events several thousand years in the future. GoT makers adapt Chinese sci-fi saga for Netflix 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “I felt China’s return to the Cultural Revolution was already a reality,” she said, referring to the violent and fanatical years under Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 1970s. China's Cai Xia: former party insider who dared criticise Xi Jinping 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The concept of “revenge spending” emerged in China in the 1980s with descriptions of burgeoning consumer demand following the poverty of the Cultural Revolution. ‘Revenge travel’ is the phenomenon that could bring back tourism with a bang 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z She and her family lived in Hong Kong during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and they lived in Laos at the end of the Vietnam War. Driving Across the Globe to Fight Child Trafficking 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Teachers and professors who spoke to the Guardian likened the intimidation they face to that during the Cultural Revolution – the tumultuous political movement in China that targeted intellectuals and other privileged classes. 'Like in the Cultural Revolution': Hong Kong's educators fear being purged 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z In May, he wrote an article accusing Xi of trying to bring the Cultural Revolution back to China. Chinese university sacks professor who criticised President Xi, friends say 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In May, before China’s delayed annual parliamentary meeting, he wrote an article accusing Xi of trying to bring the Cultural Revolution back to China. Xu Zhangrun, prominent critic of Xi Jinping, released from detention 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z “Social justice warriors are waging a dangerous 'Cancel Cultural Revolution,’” screams the headline in the New York Post. Perspective | Donald Trump is the king of cancel culture 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “This is the first movement targeted at libraries since the Cultural Revolution,” said Wu Qiang, a political analyst based in Beijing and former political science lecturer at Tsinghua University. In echo of Mao era, China's schools in book-cleansing drive 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The Education Bureau's teaching materials discuss the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong's purges of intellectuals and other anti-communist elements in one paragraph. Teachers face threats, and books are banned as China pushes party line in Hong Kong schools 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Most recently in May, before China’s delayed annual parliamentary meeting, he wrote an article accusing Xi of trying to bring the Cultural Revolution back to China. Chinese law professor who criticised leadership is detained, friends say 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Some are reported by students, harking back to the Cultural Revolution. How coronavirus could wipe out two decades of progress in the war against child labor 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution, launched by Mao to re-inject proletarian Communist fervor into his flagging national project, sent tens of millions of young zealots onto China’s streets. Li Zhensheng, photographer who captured trauma of Cultural Revolution, dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z By the end of the Cultural Revolution, in 1976, tens of millions of people had been persecuted and up to 1.5 million had died according to some estimates. Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Li Zhensheng risked his life in his determination to capture China's Cultural Revolution on film. The man who documented China's cultural revolution 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Despite such scrutiny, Sun Peidong felt lucky to be teaching in Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University, the only school left in China offering truthful courses on the repressive Cultural Revolution of half a century ago. Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Glenn Mai enjoyed a comfortable childhood in Dallas, reared by Chinese American immigrant parents who fled the Cultural Revolution and built a thriving technology company. Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Pledge, Mr. Li’s longtime editor, said the photographer was enthusiastic about the Cultural Revolution at the outset and participated in it before growing disillusioned as he witnessed its spiraling destructive force. Li Zhensheng, photographer who captured trauma of Cultural Revolution, dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z In the decades since, the Cultural Revolution has become an increasingly taboo topic in China. Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution began in 1966 when Communist leader Mao Zedong began a campaign to eliminate his rivals. The man who documented China's cultural revolution 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Those who survived starvation were thrown into the purges and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution ended with Mao’s demise in 1976, and reform-style communism was instituted under Deng Xiaoping and other Mao successors. From Mao’s China to Foggy Bottom: Miles Yu a key player in new approach to Beijing 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Li’s supporters, in response, lamented that he was heckled at a photo festival and on social media — signs, they said, that the Cultural Revolution never really ended. Li Zhensheng, photographer who captured trauma of Cultural Revolution, dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z That year — two years into the Cultural Revolution — Mr. Li was accused of being a “new bourgeois.” Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Where were you born and what was it like growing up during the Cultural Revolution? Q&A: Inspired by Reagan to come to America, Miles Yu now helps form China policy 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z She was invited to join Fudan’s history department in 2013 by its party secretary, himself a scholar of the Cultural Revolution. Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Miles Yu began life in rural China amid the madness of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, when Red Guard zealots roamed the country trashing and killing all vestiges of tradition and capitalism in the country. From Mao’s China to Foggy Bottom: Miles Yu a key player in new approach to Beijing 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z He praised the young people who, in the early days of China’s emergence from the Cultural Revolution, opened tea stalls. China’s Street Vendor Push Ignites a Debate: How Rich Is It? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z At his death, they were working on a new book, of self-portraits that Mr. Li took during the Cultural Revolution — a risky act at a time when people were expected to put party before self. Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z My primary and middle school years were during the Cultural Revolution. Q&A: Inspired by Reagan to come to America, Miles Yu now helps form China policy 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Several of her articles about the Cultural Revolution were rejected by academic journals. Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Millions of lives were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, scholars say. From Mao’s China to Foggy Bottom: Miles Yu a key player in new approach to Beijing 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In the last century it endured civil war, invasion, famine, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Amnesia Nation: Why China Has Forgotten Its Coronavirus Outbreak 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z His collection remains one of the most complete and nuanced visual chronicles of how the Cultural Revolution upended daily life far away from the capital, Beijing. Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Zhou feared a second Cultural Revolution or a third World War. 'You don't know that feeling of terror': Wuhan's survivors find no closure from the coronavirus 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z There were only two other history professors teaching the Cultural Revolution at Fudan. Spied on. Fired. Publicly shamed. China’s crackdown on professors reminds many of Mao era 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also secretary-general of the CCP, many of the Cultural Revolution’s hallmark excesses — including intensifying ideological indoctrination and personality cult around Mr. Xi — are returning to China, critics say. From Mao’s China to Foggy Bottom: Miles Yu a key player in new approach to Beijing 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z He cited the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution, who brutalized imagined enemies. Amnesia Nation: Why China Has Forgotten Its Coronavirus Outbreak 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “I want to show the world what really happened during the Cultural Revolution.” Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Originally from China, Gabriel grew up during the Cultural Revolution and was often able to get medical assistance only from TCM doctors and counts herself as a believer in TCM’s benefits. 'It's against nature': illegal wildlife trade casts shadow over traditional Chinese medicine 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Their belligerence prompted some boomers to compare them to Mao’s Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, with some using the mocking nickname “little pinks.” China’s ‘OK Boomer’: Generations Clash Over the Nation’s Future 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Chen was born to a farming family in Fujian province, in southeast China, where his university studies were delayed by Mao Zedong’s brutal Cultural Revolution. Scientists know ways to help stop viruses from spreading on airplanes. They’re too late for this pandemic. 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Their extremist conduct was reminiscent of that seen during the Cultural Revolution, the judge is quoted as saying. Judge sympathises with man who stabbed protesters 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Li’s lifelong wish was to make his fellow Chinese remember the Cultural Revolution. Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The online backlash has been so severe, Fang Fang wrote on Weibo, that it reminds her of the Cultural Revolution, the decade of political violence and chaos that she saw as a child. With Selective Coronavirus Coverage, China Builds a Culture of Hate 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Fang Fang has likened the harassment to her childhood during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, when anyone seen as even mildly critical of Mao Zedong risked torture or imprisonment. As Coronavirus Fades in China, Nationalism and Xenophobia Flare 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “Fang Fang herself said that it reminded her of the Cultural Revolution.” Chinese writer faces online backlash over Wuhan lockdown diary 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution, a campaign launched by then-leader Mao Zedong to get rid of his rivals, led to massive social, economic and political upheaval in China. Judge sympathises with man who stabbed protesters 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Fang Fang’s response was a recollection of her teenage years during China’s Cultural Revolution, a time when young Maoists criticized, tortured and killed their elders, teachers and intellectuals, tearing the country apart. Two months into coronavirus lockdown, her online diary is a window into life and death in Wuhan 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The only comfort, she wrote, is that “this type of Cultural Revolution is only conducted in cyberspace.” With Selective Coronavirus Coverage, China Builds a Culture of Hate 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z After the Cultural Revolution ended and Mao died, Yan and her family were gradually rehabilitated. Review | An elite Chinese family, ensnared in the Cultural Revolution 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z History and politics classes are among the most vulnerable; subjects such as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward are regularly censored in classes and online discussions. China’s schools, forced online by virus, run into censors 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z China, at the time of his comments, was in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, during which hundreds of thousands of people -- possibly millions -- were killed as Mao's foot soldiers targeted enemies of the regime. Bernie Sanders once said Mao-era China had democracy ‘on the local level’ 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The dish was forcibly rechristened during the Cultural Revolution, when such imperial officials were very much out of fashion, as quick-fried chicken cubes, or chicken cubes with seared chillies – both accurate, if rather unromantic descriptions. How to make the perfect kung pao chicken – recipe | Felicity Cloake 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z A later geopolitically significant trip took him to China toward the end of the Cultural Revolution. Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020) 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Radchenko compared Mr. Xi’s actions to those of previous leaders in moments of crisis: Mao Zedong after the Cultural Revolution or Deng Xiaoping after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Where’s Xi? China’s Leader Commands Coronavirus Fight From Safe Heights 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The concept of “transformation through education” has its roots in the “re-education through labor” employed by Mao with disastrous consequences during the Cultural Revolution. Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z This was at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, which tore Wuhan apart as it did other cities. Wuhan Beyond the Coronavirus: Steel, Cars and Spicy Noodles 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z He stayed up late scouring the uncensored Internet for facts about the Cultural Revolution and the massacre at Tiananmen Square. The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z A Guangzhou native, Mr Chan was witness to the Cultural Revolution - he once saw a peasant being beaten to death by children. Hong Kong's year in seven intense emotions 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z But by the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, all religion was violently purged. For China's underground churches, this was no easy Christmas 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Chen’s breakthrough came in 1999 with the critically acclaimed, bestselling “Colors of the Mountain,“ in which he recounted the abuses he and his family suffered during the latter years of the country’s Cultural Revolution. 'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z His most recent work, “Girl Under a Red Moon,” casts his real-life sister Xi Xi as the heroine during China’s Cultural Revolution. ‘Colors of the Mountain’ author Da Chen dies at 57 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z China’s Cultural Revolution, an often violent social and political upheaval that started in 1966, prompted many young people to emigrate to the United States, a country that projected an image of freedom and economic possibility. Chinese Restaurants Are Closing. That’s a Good Thing, the Owners Say. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z On the national day of the People’s Republic of China in October, these relics of the Cultural Revolution become the vessels for millions of Chinese migrants to return to their ancestral homelands. The censor is watching: China's mega photo fair – in pictures 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The house church movement sprang up at the end of the Cultural Revolution, starting in rural areas, where mass conversion in provinces like Henan brought the number of Christians to 3 million by 1982. For China's underground churches, this was no easy Christmas 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s image was everywhere, but, when preparing to greet Richard Nixon, he made much of the imagery disappear. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Chen’s breakthrough came in 1999 with the critically acclaimed, best-selling “Colors of the Mountain,” in which he recounted the abuses he and his family suffered during the latter years of the country’s Cultural Revolution. ‘Colors of the Mountain’ author Da Chen dies at 57 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Chen Youxi, a prominent defense lawyer, warned officials that book-burning “goes down in history” and loosely compared it to the Cultural Revolution in a social media post that was censored hours later. China’s library officials are burning books that diverge from Communist Party ideology 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Born in Beijing, he came of age during the Cultural Revolution, which deprived him of the opportunity to attend high school. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It is partly rooted in the ancient Chinese belief in transformation through education — taken before to terrifying extremes during the mass thought reform campaigns of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z “It’s the dark days of the Cultural Revolution, except now it’s powered by high-tech,” said Zenz, the researcher. Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z During China’s Cultural Revolution he used acupuncture as anesthesia on patients undergoing major surgery. AP: Oxy sales in China driven by misleading addiction claims 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s, academics and people with ties to the West or who were deemed “class enemies” were persecuted. Professors, Beware. A ‘Student Information Officer’ Might Be Watching. 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z For example, you seem to overplay the modern significance of China’s Cultural Revolution. The Chinese Academy of Sciences responds: we are with the government and with the people 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z I had always wanted to be a writer as a child but couldn’t spell out this dream to myself because during the Cultural Revolution all writers were condemned. Jung Chang: ‘To be a writer was the most dangerous profession’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z One of the few Western cultural activities not frowned upon during the Cultural Revolution, it was promoted by Mao Zedong and became particularly popular within the Chinese military. How the NBA's rift with China laid bare the cost of free speech 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z This narrative glosses over a lot of history, including the cruelty of Mao’s revolution, the starving of millions during Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the madness of his decade-long Cultural Revolution. China’s Political Correctness: One Country, No Arguments 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z “People still don’t understand how terrible this place could be if the whole place is turned into China under the Cultural Revolution,” Yeung said. From Shake Shack to Starbucks, the Hong Kong-China standoff is proving bad for business 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z That will ensure that no historical films in China will depict some of the most disastrous events in the country’s collective memory, like the Cultural Revolution or the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram Age 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z This was followed in the 1960s by the decade-long Cultural Revolution, when numerous universities and CAS institutes were closed, research was stopped and science books burned. The Chinese Academy of Sciences at 70 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Yet the economic failure of the Great Leap Forward and the famine and purges of the Cultural Revolution caused millions of deaths across the country. How the Communist Party runs China 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z In some middle school history books, the Cultural Revolution is described as “a detour in the Communist Party’s expedition,” rather than as a mistake. China’s Political Correctness: One Country, No Arguments 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Many fields ground to a halt as the very institutional structure supporting the advancement of science shut down during the decade of the Cultural Revolution. China: How science made a superpower 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But its trajectory has been far from smooth — massive famine, political chaos and the repression of the Cultural Revolution. China’s Communist Party has one more reason to celebrate — a year longer in power than the U.S.S.R. 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z “The Cultural Revolution devastated China’s science and technological undertakings,” wrote Chunli Bai, the current president of CAS, in China’s Creations and Progress in Science and Technology, which was published last year. The Chinese Academy of Sciences at 70 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of Cultural Revolution victims are rehabilitated. ‘Mao inspired me in 1949, but my dreams were soon shattered’ 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The Cultural Revolution, during which it is believed that up to two million people were murdered, was just the last of his great purges. Opinion | The Tenacity of Chinese Communism 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z A military parade was held each National Day from 1949 to 1959, but the tradition lapsed during the darkest years of Mao’s reign, which included the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. Tanks, Missiles and No Pigeons: China to Celebrate 70th Birthday of the People’s Republic 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, Dr. Wang recalled watching her parents be forced to put on dunce caps because her father had been a soldier in the nationalist Kuomintang forces. Shuping Wang, whistleblower who exposed China’s HIV/AIDS crisis, dies at 59 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Mao’s power was such that he cultivated a youth army whose violence plunged China into a decade-long turmoil known as the Cultural Revolution. Busts of leaders a hit in China's porcelain capital ahead of key anniversary 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Cui, the poet, calls it the harshest campaign against faith since the end of the Cultural Revolution, when so-called Red Guards unleashed by Mao Zedong destroyed mosques across the country. A Crackdown on Islam Is Spreading Across China 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Regardless of the outcome, Morales’ Museum of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution of Orinoca seeks to pay tribute to his image beyond his days in power. A museum in Bolivia pays homage to President Evo Morales 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The economy would also plummet during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts impact on China’s economy 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z For context, 50 to 60 years ago, China was in the throes of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About China’s ‘Worst Year’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The previous one was fired by the colonial police while trying to restore calm in the territory after the leftist riots of 1967, a spillover of the Chinese Cultural Revolution across the then British territory. Hong Kong's 'be water' protests leaves China casting about for an enemy 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Rittenberg also translated Mao’s Complete Works and the Little Red Book into English and became a leading rabble-rouser in the Cultural Revolution that began in 1966. Sidney Rittenberg obituary 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z As a teen-ager, he lived through the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, when young Red Guards forced him to wear a metal dunce cap and imprisoned his father. China’s Hong Kong Dilemma 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z But the letters still contain disturbing details and echo the self-criticisms and confessions that were a feature of similar “re-education” camps in the Cultural Revolution. Uighur man held after leaking letters from Xinjiang camp inmates, says family 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, her father said, all Chinese experienced the same political turmoil — Han and ethnic minority alike. ‘They want to erase us.’ California Uighurs fear for family members in China 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z A few years after the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, the complex was in a sad state. The Forbidden City Opens Wide as China Projects New Pride in Its Past 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z As his father recounts in a confessional letter, he was part of an international crime syndicate that formed during China’s Cultural Revolution. L.A. book events this week: Meet authors with deep roots to California's past and present 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It begins during China’s Cultural Revolution when a dissident scientist is exiled to a remote research facility. A TV adaptation of Chinese sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem is in development 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Despite what many conservatives claim to believe, the appetite for a Stalinist terror state or a Cultural Revolution 2.0 within the Democratic Party’s voter coalition is exceedingly small. Frontrunner or dead man walking: What we talk about when we talk about Joe Biden 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Liu was three years old when the Cultural Revolution broke out. Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Prior to that, the most violent riots in the city were in 1967, when pro-communist supporters clashed with British colonial authorities as the Cultural Revolution spilled over from mainland China. Hong Kong police use tougher tactics against protesters 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The far right uses the Great Purge under Soviet Rule and the Cultural Revolution under Chinese Rule as example of the inhumanity of the left. The Making of a YouTube Radical 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Chen thought her classmates’ mentalities were influenced by their parents, who lived through the Cultural Revolution. Without memories of 1989, Chinese activists of a new generation struggle for social change 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z In high school, the kind of history we learned from books was about the Cultural Revolution and things like that. What does Tiananmen mean for Chinese too young to remember it? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The city was a flash point for the factional violence that accompanied the Cultural Revolution, and Liu remembers hearing gunfire at night and seeing trucks filled with men clutching guns and wearing red armbands. Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Pei stretches from west to east, from the Louvre museum to his native China, where he helped fuse tradition and modernity as the country opened up after the Cultural Revolution. I.M. Pei’s legacy stretched from the West to the East 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z China is planning to send millions of youth “volunteers” back to villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago. Millions of Chinese youth 'volunteers' to be sent to villages in echo of Mao policy 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z He likened Study the Great Nation to the little booklet of Mao quotations that was widely circulated during the chaotic and violent Cultural Revolution. In China, an App About Xi Is Impossible to Ignore — Even if You Try 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z But for me, it’s just another crazy part of Chinese history that happened before I was born, like the Cultural Revolution. What does Tiananmen mean for Chinese too young to remember it? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The time line of the trilogy spans 18,906,450 years, encompassing ancient Egypt, the Qin dynasty, the Byzantine Empire, the Cultural Revolution, the present, and a time eighteen million years in the future. Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z After the Cultural Revolution, Uighur and Kazakh Muslims began to reconnect with their faith. Bulldozing mosques: the latest tactic in China’s war against Uighur culture | Rachel Harris 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Many evoked the chaos of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when Mao sent millions of “young intellectuals” into often primitive conditions in the countryside, while universities were closed for a decade. Millions of Chinese youth 'volunteers' to be sent to villages in echo of Mao policy 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z He said a university “work team” would investigate the articles he wrote since July, an echo of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, when intellectuals were investigated by such teams. Opinion | A professor at China’s permier university questioned Xi Jinping. Then he was suspended. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Professor Xu said the investigation by a team of officials from the university carried echoes of Mao’s destructive Cultural Revolution, when intellectuals and officials were investigated by “special case teams.” A Chinese Law Professor Criticized Xi. Now He’s Been Suspended. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The school had also hosted a commemoration of China’s bloody Cultural Revolution, with activities that uncritically celebrated Mao’s “achievements.” Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Not until graduate school, writing a long paper on American press coverage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, did I hit that academic sweet spot. Perspective | Is it possible to go deep in high school? Maybe, but excitement is mandatory. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Following Mao’s death in 1976, and the PRC’s own denunciation of the Cultural Revolution as “10 years of chaos”, western enthusiasm for Mao faded. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z But like many other purged officials, he returned to work after the death of Mao and the end of his frenzied Cultural Revolution. In Beijing, a Communist Funeral for an Inconvenient Critic 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Last week, the well-known Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s latest film, about China’s Cultural Revolution, was abruptly withdrawn from the Berlin festival because of so-called technical difficulties, a common euphemism for censorship in China. Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Is Cut From Film; Producer Cites ‘Fear of China’ 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Born in 1944, he went to Chongqing University and then joined a People's Liberation Army research institute at the height of the disruption caused by the country's 1960s Cultural Revolution. Ren Zhengfei: Huawei's reclusive founder 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z “This film was about the Cultural Revolution,” one person wrote on Weibo. Film Set in China’s Cultural Revolution Is Pulled From Berlin Festival 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Although Mao’s successor, Deng Xiaoping, mothballed the keynote policies of the Cultural Revolution – communes and mass-spectacle purges – Mao is still fundamental to the PRC’s political and institutional framework. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z “The situation in China right now is a bit like during the Cultural Revolution: People are being punished for talking about very minor things.” Chinese-Australian Writer Yang Hengjun Detained in China 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Some joke that it's a hark back to Cultural Revolution times, with one asking whether landlords should be segregated in their own carriage too. Should trains have child-free zones? 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z During Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, religious practices and rituals were banned, and mosques were repurposed as factories, administration offices or community centres. 'You can't be too careful': crackdown fears haunt Xi'an's Muslim quarter 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Early Rain is the latest victim of what Chinese Christians and rights activists say is the worst crackdown on religion since the country’s Cultural Revolution, when Mao Zedong’s government vowed to eradicate religion. In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Neo-Maoists in China angry at the inequalities generated by the market and globalisation quote Mao’s Cultural Revolution incitement to rebel against the state. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Far from smooth sailing, Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution disrupted this early programs. Will China’s moon landing launch a new space race? 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z “The whole world knows what happened during the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Li said. A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z “Like Cultural Revolution,” grunts one Hui man as he leaves the prayer hall. 'You can't be too careful': crackdown fears haunt Xi'an's Muslim quarter 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He is working on a novel with a nightmarish plot: believers are brutalized by demons in a Cultural Revolution in Hell. Poet fears for his people as China ‘Sinicizes’ religion 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Yet there are major aspects of the Maoist heritage that strongman Xi Jinping is determined to suppress: above all the bottom-up mobilisations of the Cultural Revolution that almost destroyed the party-state in the late 1960s. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Xi chronicled at length the country’s recent achievements, giving special credit to former leader Deng Xiaoping, whose reforms Xi said saved China from the brink of economic collapse following the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. China will ‘never seek hegemony,’ Xi says in reform speech 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z After Mao unleashed the Cultural Revolution, what began as a political campaign aimed at reasserting control at the top soon became a sweeping nationwide movement that shook all levels of society. A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z For many observers, it was an updated version of the public self-denunciations of the Cultural Revolution. China’s Bizarre Program to Keep Activists in Check 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z He is of the generation that has put his entire life — even before it actually started — online, including pictures of his young father during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. John Chau Aced Missionary Boot Camp. Reality Proved a Harsher Test. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He was of the generation that has put his entire life — even before it actually started — online, including pictures of his young father during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. John Chau aced missionary boot camp; real world proved a harsher test 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z This appears to suggest that the Chinese are enjoying their own version of glasnost because the film does not gloss over the ideological switchbacks during and after the Cultural Revolution. Bernardo Bertolucci: The emperor's new clothier 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z “No other political movement in China’s recent history lasted as long, was as widespread in its impact, and as deep in its trauma as the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Li said. A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The nation’s long economic boom followed one of the darkest chapters of its history, the Cultural Revolution, which decimated the party apparatus and left it in shambles. The Land That Failed to Fail 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z During the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, doctors were scarce and medicine was limited. Scandals Catch Up to Private Chinese Hospitals, After Fortunes Are Made 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z He also said he saw repression and propaganda in the Chinese mainland today that was eerily similar to that of the Cultural Revolution. Ma Jian, Exiled Chinese Novelist, Hails Appearance as Victory for Rights 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “We must always maintain a pragmatic attitude and a clear mind,” said Mr. Deng, who was paralyzed in an attack during the Cultural Revolution and serves as chairman of the federation. China’s Leader, Hogging Spotlight, Elbows Communist Titan Aside 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Now, more than a half-century after the Cultural Revolution began, there is little public discussion of that period in China. A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z |
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