China’s Cultural Revolution began 50 years ago this week ... tortured, and forced to parade — in chains, wearing a dunce cap — in front of several thousand Mao loyalists.

This new campaign was described by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption that it wreaked on China and its economy lasted for nearly a decade. It is estimated ...

"We also know that the Cultural Revolution was about dismantling institutions to expand control." For these Chinese, who ...

Westad and Chen deliver a lively account of Chinese history from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 through the first decades of economic reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

First, my Chinese interlocutors thought of the upheaval in today’s US in relation to their own cultural revolution that began almost 60 years ago. Mao Zedong used his prestige as an ...

Andrew Marr explores the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the fall and rise ... Label significant events in his life and rate them on a score of 1-10. Show events from Deng Xiaoping's life, from ...

Then there was the challenge of representing the past events in Mu Xin’s life ... us that Mu Xin was not alone in his experiences in China — there were thousands of others during the Cultural ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the last two weeks I have visited Beijing and Hong Kong. This visit made clear that in today’s ...