Cultural Revolution
About Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.
Xi Jinping is unveiling a new deputy - why it matters
... A bright economist who graduated from Peking University just after the Cultural Revolution, Li Keqiang rose through the ranks of the Party via the Communist Youth League, a rival power bloc...
China Covid: Celebrity deaths spark fears over death toll
... He was the main author of a famous commentary published in 1978 that marked the start of the China s " Boluan Fanzheng" period - a time of eliminating chaos and returning to normal after the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution under the country s first Communist leader Mao Zedong...
Dame Vivienne Westwood - the godmother of punk
... They moved into a tiny flat in Clapham, had a child and launched a Cultural Revolution that shook, and sometimes frightened, the world...
China Covid: Rare protest against President Xi before party congress
... No Cultural Revolution, we want reform...
China anniversary: How the Communist Party runs the country
... Then came the chaos of the Cultural Revolution when a paranoid Mao tried to purge his rivals in the party...
Queen Elizabeth II: Hong Kong's grief sends message to Beijing
... Meanwhile mainland China was swept by political turmoil including the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution...
How China plans to become the next big space power
... Who makes the rules for space? What is China s history in space? China put its first satellite into orbit in 1970 - as it went through massive disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution...
Beijing 2022 vs 2008: Two Olympics and two very different Chinas
... He s been accused, by some, of selling out since the days of his tough films about the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, when millions are believed to have starved to death, but he received great acclaim for his visual feast in 2008...
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