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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.

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Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be ...

A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an exercise in Buddhist practice. By Aatish Taseer and Maxime Fossat “Wild Swans,” a ...

“3 Body Problem,” a Netflix adaptation of the popular Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the Cultural Revolution. Yangyang Cheng, fellow and ...