Song Binbin, perhaps the most infamous “Red Guard” of the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 77 on Monday, September 16. Song, the daughter of one of the Party’s powerful “Eight Immortals,” was the leader of a Red Guard...
Margaret Hillenbrand, professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, joined CDT to discuss her two latest books: “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China” (2023) and “Negative Exposures: Knowing...
PRI profiles documentary filmmaker Hu Jie, whose work focuses on Communist Party history from the...
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past week. Click any image to launch the slideshow...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers looks at the the story of Bian Zhongyun, a teacher who was one of the first victims of the Cultural Revolution, and the lack of accountability in China for the violence of that decade:...
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