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 ...

Unfortunately, the government of China learned the wrong lessons from the failures of the Great Leap Forward ... by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption ...

“a pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms”—a generation of kids cut off from great literature: “As long as they have the Walkman on, they cannot hear what the great ...

such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square massacre. During his tour of “The Road toward Renewal” exhibition at the National Museum of China just two ...

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 ...

America is undergoing a cultural revolution. “This is going to be great television,” Trump said at the end of Friday’s stormy ...

Fifty years later, the digital revolution has transformed both how we work and the way we socialize and entertain ourselves. A great part of ... s look back at the cultural changes prompted ...

Is it a genuine cultural revolution or just a wave of self-indulgence? “It is powerful,” he says. “What it does have something in common at its best with rock ’n’ roll, with great rock ...

Unlike the Cultural Revolution in China – the effects of which were mostly felt within the country’s borders in the 1960s and 1970s – Roach said the corresponding event in the US could have ...