“We also know that the Cultural Revolution was about dismantling institutions to expand control.” For these Chinese, who strive for democratic values but contend with an authoritarian ...

Mr Xi was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for ...

In May of 1966, amid waning power and influence, Chairman Mao Zedong warned that "counter-revolutionary revisionists" were infiltrating China's Communist Party ... he launched the "Great Proletarian ...

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 ...

Branigan went to China in 2008. It was then that her interest in the Cultural Revolution began. "I went for lunch one day with an analyst I knew… he started telling me about a trip that he'd ...

I was three years old when the Cultural Revolution was launched by the Chinese Communist Party’s paramount leader Mao Zedong. At the time, many of Mao’s comrades in the top leadership ranks ...

About 1 million Tibetans are estimated to be enrolled in boarding schools, where they are reportedly subjected to forced ...