On May 16, 1966, the Chinese Communist Party issued the May 16 Notification, a document that criticized “counterrevolutionary ...

As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global ...

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 ...

Peter Wilson, a Mandarin-speaking official, has been named the new UK ambassador to China, as per a report in Reuters. Wilson ...

Through her characters, Chang introduces the idea of Cultural Revolution survivors suffering from post-traumatic stress ...

our reputation for attracting the world’s smartest young people—“we’re going after each of them in a fit of cultural Maoism,” Doshi told me last week. Mao Zedong, who led China’s one ...

Snooker had gone global and the Chinese revolution was underway. Bold predictions started to fly. With uber-talent Ding at the vanguard, a generation of Chinese talent would be unleashed. There would ...

He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist ...