1. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — Why is it called “cultural”? Superficial observations only revealed brutal struggles, large scale rebellion, or a limited civil war in various places.

The Cultural Revolution was not a single event. It was a decade of upheaval that reshaped China’s society, culture, and ...

Chinese waiters dressed like red guards during the Cultural Revolution period perform revolutionary songs and dances at a Cultural Revolution-themed restaurant in Nanjing, in China’s Jiangsu province, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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It is difficult in China to discuss the horrors of the Cultural Revolution openly. The dark period from 1966 to 1976, when millions of people were persecuted, many of them to death, by fanatical gangs ...

At first glance Zhang Hongbing is deserving of pity. In the 1960s, while still a teenager, he watched his father being beaten until his urine ran red. The older man, a veteran of China’s Communist ...

Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from the new, "Mao’s America: A Survivor's Warning," by Xi Van Fleet. The year 2020 was a watershed moment in American history. The outbreak of a pandemic brought ...