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 ...

The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective ...

US President Donald Trump is in the early stages of unleashing his own cultural revolution in his attempt to “Make America Great Again”. In China, academics, teachers, scientists and artists ...