Imagine a time traveller from Mao Zedong’s China – say a Red Guard – landing in a Chinese city today, nearly half a century ...

A cultural revolution is underway in America. It’s not yet clear how similar it is to Mao Zedong’s decade-long chaos-inducing ...

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Trump is purging officials, persecuting intellectuals and burnishing his cult of personality. If reason prevails, Americans ...

Father Angelo S. Lazzarotto promoted dialogue with China, following the brutal Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong ...

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The source material here is undeniably compelling – a cautionary tale of resentment and repression. But this production ...

Trump's Cultural Revolution. The president's desire to ... Britain’s failed prime minister; Chairman Mao Zedong, China’s despot ruler; and Marie Antoinette, the 18 th-century queen who told ...

peasants and other soldiers who had gathered for a marathon conference on the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong. This was 1968, nearly two years into the Cultural Revolution, Mao's attempt to purge ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the ... badly with his disastrous Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and other bloody and misguided social ...