Linda Jaivin’s epic tale of China’s Cultural Revolution brings its players to life – and illustrates the massive scale of its ...

Hong Kong (CNN)On May 16, 1966, Mao Zedong issued the first ideological salvo of the Cultural Revolution, a tumultuous political campaign that would go on to consume China in bloodshed, torture ...

When Chairman Mao Zedong unleashed the “Cultural Revolution” in 1966, he admonished his fellow Chinese: “A revolution is not a dinner party, it is an insurrection, an act of violence by ...

Fifty years after Mao Zedong unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China's founder still exerts a ...

Song Binbin, who died Sept. 16 at 77, was a teenage face of the Cultural Revolution, the bloody decade-long campaign in which Chinese leader Mao Zedong persecuted perceived enemies of the ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China’s 10-year political maelstrom in which millions of youths famously waved copies ...