Popular music was banned. The Communist Party’s Central Committee, under Mao’s direction, described this “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” as “a deeper and more extensive stage in ...

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 ...

I was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province right before Mao started the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. And my parents were illiterate workers. We should be the... Workers rule society.