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...
This week we are introducing a new feature, which we will run every Friday: This Week on CDT. We...
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...
From The New America Media: A long forgotten photo of a young woman strapping a Red Guard arm band on the communist leader has resurfaced on the Internet and brought new infamy to Song Binbin, now a scientist living in the United States. [Full Text]
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