The spring of 1967 saw the full flourishing of Mao’s personality cult. Larger-than-life statues of the Great Helmsman sprang ...

This new campaign was described by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and ... Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing, a former actress, and one of her allies were sentenced to death ...

This is the fundamental position of the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), solemnly reaffirmed by United ...

Mao Zedong launched the "cultural revolution." Manipulated by the two counterrevolutionary cliques under Lin Biao and Jiang Qing, the movement became especially rampant and went beyond Mao Zedong ...

Jiang Qing and 14-year-old Sun first meet in 1930s Shanghai at ... While Jiang went on to become Chairman Mao’s fourth wife and a leading proponent of the brutal Cultural Revolution, Sun (who we ...

US hegemony is under threat and the turn to Hobbesian realism in international affairs means more instability and more ...

This is the story of Lan Ping (later known as Jiang Qing) and Li Lin (later called Weishi ... thirst for freedom as Ibsen’s Nora into the ruthless leader of the Cultural Revolution, while Li remains ...

It cited a quote from Jimi Hendrix, a rock idol and drug addict, who was one of many figures promoting the ungodly Cultural Revolution of the sixties (“True leadership requires compassion ...

From 1966 to 1976, Chairman Mao Zedong led the People’s Republic of China in the Cultural Revolution. Youth joined the Red Guards, tasked with purging the country of what were deemed to be ...

He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist ...

In response, he launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" to weed out and purge purveyors of capitalism and traditional thinking. It was during this period that Mao's cult of personality ...