In sum, the Chinese believe they can survive Trump’s onslaught. Indeed, many believe it may help them, by destroying US ...

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

When mocking or lamenting the Trumpian world, Chinese netizens often refer to the Cultural Revolution. Their comments are revealing. Differences between America today and 1960s China are far more ...

China has a lot at stake. For Xi Jinping and his regime, the first Trump presidency was a grave disappointment. Your ...

Wu Yiching's book "The Cultural Revolution at the Margins. Chinese Socialism in Crisis" gives a fascinating account of a period that was decisive… The most famous text from 1968 by the Hunan ...

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.

China’s finest historical relics are in Taiwan because China’s Nationalist party lost the Chinese civil war ... best thing about Taiwan is? No Cultural Revolution.” His point was that ...

Now technology is changing, and the government may change too. He says some American friends compare it to China's Cultural ...

This, then, is what I have learnt. 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 ...

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Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.