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 ...

Official Chinese media stayed largely silent about Monday’s 50th anniversary of the start of the bloody Cultural Revolution, with discussion of the tumultuous decade still controlled on the mainland.

It is difficult in China to discuss the horrors of the Cultural Revolution openly. The dark period from 1966 to 1976, when millions of people were persecuted, many of them to death, by fanatical gangs ...

In search of a sign, even just a flicker, of public remembrance, Chaguan paid a visit last month to what once stood as China’s lone exhibition of the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, in the hills ...

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.

The ruling Chinese Communist Party has enshrined the ashes of a general who presided over a Cultural Revolution massacre that included cannibalism of those deemed “enemies of the people” by late ...

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 ...

When Mao Zedong and his party took power, China was in a precarious state. A century’s worth of invasions, rebellions, and revolutions had left the country poor, weakened, and humiliated. But Mao ...

"3 Body Problem," a Netflix adaptation of the Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the... China's divided memory of the Cultural Revolution “3 ...