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

China’s Cultural Revolution began 50 years ago this week. In the late Fifties, China’s Communist-in-chief, Chairman Mao, began “The Great Leap Forward,” a Communist economic reform that is ...

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 ...

In sum, the Chinese believe they can survive Trump’s onslaught. Indeed, many believe it may help them, by destroying US credibility and perceptions of its competence. That does not mean China is sure ...

Of all the changes the Cultural Revolution brought to Chinese society, the most crucial was Mao's purge of numerous Communist ...

In the cult of Mao, everyone was expected to perform ... Contact Press Images The "loyalty dance" was a fixture of China's Cultural Revolution, and Kang Wenjie's performance at a giant Maoist ...

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That’s why I’m here to warn you, the Mao’s Cultural Revolution, similar style is happening today on American soil. Connect the dots. Look at those 12 features.

The Cultural Revolution meant a vast purge ... that he thought there was an alternative way for China to modernise, not necessarily Chairman Mao’s way. After his public denunciation, Deng ...

A cultural revolution is underway in America. It’s not yet clear how similar it is to Mao Zedong’s decade-long chaos-inducing ...

Jiang Qing and 14-year-old Sun first meet in 1930s Shanghai at an audition for Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, and swiftly become ...