Seeking to restore his challenged legitimacy, Mao Zedong called for a Cultural Revolution in 1966. The leader of the Chinese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song tying a red armband for Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the ...

‘The two groups are of the same nature, both wishing to leave the CCP,’ Mr. Lau, a Red Guard who fled to Hong Kong, said of the city’s current emigration wave. A leading figure of the Red Guards, who ...

China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has changed course numerous times in its tumultuous 27-month existence. The alternating current is provided, of course, by Mao Tse-tung. His heart is with ...

In 1966, China’s Communist dictator Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, a whole-of-society effort to remold the Chinese people into worthy Communists and to eliminate all dissenting voices.