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...
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson continues his exploration of the journal...
NPR reports on recent public apologies by former Red Guards for violence, including murder,...
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...
As of January 17, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
A 61-year-old man from Shandong Province, Liu Boqin, paid a magazine to publish a letter expressing remorse over violent acts he committed during the Cultural Revolution as a teen. According to Chang Meng of The Global Times,...
The Guardian’s Tania Branigan profiles 60-year-old Zhang Hongbing, whose denunciation of his mother during the Cultural Revolution led to her execution. Zhang is now trying to make amends for his role in his mother’s...
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