A revolutionary song is performed by the “56 Flowers” troupe in a televised appearance, May 2, 2016. RFA/Qiao Long
As China approaches the 50th anniversary of the launch of late supreme leader Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the ruling Chinese Communist Party appears to be sending mixed signals about public events marking the decade of turmoil and political violence. Continue reading
Beijing Mixes Its Message on The Cultural Revolution’s Golden Anniversary已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, History
Tagged 56 Flowers, Anniversary, Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong, revolutionary songs
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, arrives in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, after the Long March, Oct. 15, 1935. Pigiste/Xinhua/AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stopped publication of a collection of essays by a well-known historian whose books have never yet been available outside Hong Kong. Continue reading
China Bans New Book by Late Scholar of Communist Party History已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews, Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Hua, Mao Zedong
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
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ October 22, 2015
Guards changing shifts beneath the portrait of the former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing after a flag-raising ceremony this month.
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HONG KONG — Karla Cabrera, a 29-year-old lawyer in Mexico City, was excited when she came across “Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought,” an online course about the Chinese revolutionary leader. She has a passion for Chinese history, and she hoped the class would shed light on the brutal Continue reading
China Turns to Online Courses, and Mao, for Soft-Power Mission已关闭评论
Tagged China, Mao Zedong, Soft-Power
By Yang Jianli, published: September 1, 2015
“At the time of the Cairo Conference, although the US military had already gained the upper hand in the Pacific and was actively planning an Allied invasion of Europe, and despite the first glimmerings of hope for an Allied victory over Germany, Italy and Japan, another threat was already taking shape, this time within Allied ranks: it would grow to become the greatest and most persistent threat to global peace in the post-war era.”
CAIRO CONFERENCE, 1943. VIA @HEGUISEN
On the eve of the 70th anniversary celebration of the victory over Japan in World War II, Continue reading
By CHRIS BUCKLEY APRIL 9, 2015 4:53 AM April 9, 2015 4:53 am
The television host Bi Fujian’s performance of a song from the Mao-era opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” with irreverent asides, was captured on video.
HONG KONG — Mao Zedong famously said a revolution is not a dinner party. Nor, it seems, Continue reading
Mocking Mao Backfires for Chinese TV Host已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
Tagged Bi Fujian, CCTV, Mao Zedong
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Mao Zedong portraits for sale in a Beijing market. Continue reading
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
