The entrance to Guangdong Shantou the country’s first museum of the Cultural Revolution is shown in this undated file photo. Network Graphics
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have apparently clamped down on the only museum dedicated to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 60 years after it was launched by late supreme leader Mao Zedong. Continue reading
Independent Chinese historian Song Yongyi, in undated photo. Photo courtesy of Song Yongyi.
As China approaches the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution this year, Chinese independent historian and former political prisoner Song Yongyi, now a university lecturer in California, has published an e-book based on official records. His research describes an era of government-sponsored political violence and turmoil that engulfed the country from 1966-1976. Song, who had unprecedented access to secret government files in the southwestern region of Guangxi, spoke to RFA’s Mandarin Service about his findings: Continue reading
Interview: ‘People Were Eaten by The Revolutionary Masses’已关闭评论
Tagged cannibalism, Cultural Revolution, Guangxi, massacre, Song Yongyi
By Alexander C. Cook
[Editors’ note: This is the first of a two-part roundtable interview we invited Alexander C. Cook, editor of the well-received Cambridge University Press book Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History, to conduct with four scholars who have been doing important work on the final decade of Mao Zedong’s rule and were part of a recent American Historical Association panel that he chaired.] Continue reading
The Cultural Revolution at 50: A Q&A with Four Specialists (Part One)已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Alexander C. Cook, Cultural Revolution, Daniel Leese, Denise Ho, Fabio Lanza, textbook, Yiching Wu
Provincial Party Secretary Wang Yilun, being criticized by Red Guards from the University of Industry and forced to bear a placard with the accusation “counterrevolutionary revisionist element,” Harbin, China, August 23, 1966
By now, it has been nearly forty years since the Cultural Revolution officially ended, yet in China, considering the magnitude and significance of the event, it has remained a poorly examined, under-documented subject. Official archives are off-limits. Serious books on the period, whether comprehensive histories, in-depth analyses, or detailed personal memoirs, are remarkably few. Ji Xianlin’s The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which has just been released in English for the first time, is something of an anomaly. Continue reading
Zha Jianying：China: Surviving the Camps已关闭评论
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Tagged Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, Zha Jianying
Guan Hu, director of “Mr. Six.” Image via Youtube user: Yitiao Video 一条视频,
Guan Hu’s newest movie resonates with the Cultural Revolution generation, but the film has one fatal flaw. Continue reading
A Look at “Mr. Six”已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Guan Hu, movie, Mr. Six, Pu Zhiqiang
Chinese intellectual Fu Lei. Image via: Wikimedia Commons.
At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals committed suicide in defiance of Mao Zedong’s policies, which would take the lives of millions more. Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao: The Communist Party of China’s “Mother Beats Child” Syndrome已关闭评论
Posted in History, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Cultural Revolution, intellectuals, Mao Zedong, Stockholm syndrome, Tienchi Martin-Liao
All this led to the emergence of a the Criticize Lin Criticize Confucius (Pi Lin Pi Kong) campaign, a campaign against a Communist general Continue reading
Studying in China during the Cultural Revolution已关闭评论
Posted in History
Tagged China, Cultural Revolution
Under a new program, artists would be sent to rural communities or revolutionary sites to absorb socialist values. In Yan’an, the Communist base where Mao Zedong delivered his talks on the arts in 1942, a tourist in Red Army garb has her photo taken in front of an image of Mao.GILLES SABRIE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
By AMY QIN
DECEMBER 2, 2014
In a project that echoes the Cultural Revolution, Continue reading
China’s Artists to Be Taught ‘Correct View’ in New Plan已关闭评论
Posted in History
Tagged Correct View, Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong
