Trump is purging officials, persecuting intellectuals and burnishing his cult of personality. If reason prevails, Americans ...

The Cultural Revolution came to an abrupt end in 1976 ... the chaos Their efforts were quickly repudiated by the rest of the Chinese national government, led by acting premier Deng Xiaoping.

"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.

From parody music videos to drag makeup tutorials, Chinese internet users unleash a wave of political trolling aimed at US leaders.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie is a fascinating tale about the power of literature. Two boys from ...

It’s estimated that millions of people died in the Cultural Revolution. The Chinese government itself says that a hundred million people suffered. Mao had quite deliberately unleashed social ...

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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 ...