China’s current president, Xi Jinping, also was caught up in the Cultural Revolution. He was “sent down” during the period, spending six years living in a cave in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, ...

“3 Body Problem,” a Netflix adaptation of the popular Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the Cultural Revolution. Yangyang Cheng, fellow and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song tying a red armband for Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - As a young ballet dancer, Zhao Ruheng would traipse across the Chinese countryside performing a carefully selected repertoire to factory workers and peasants and do her bit for the ...

Chinese state media made a rare public mention of the Cultural Revolution on Tuesday, hours after the 50th anniversary of the start of the decade-long upheaval. The People's Daily, the ruling ...

1. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — Why is it called “cultural”? Superficial observations only revealed brutal struggles, large scale rebellion, or a limited civil war in various places.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! "Guardian" newspaper editorial writer and former China correspondent Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory," details some basic facts about China's ...

The showrunner for Netflix's new show "3 Body Problem", David Benioff noted the parallels between a scene depicting China’s Cultural Revolution and modern cancel culture. Netflix’s new sci-fi epic ‘3 ...

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