“One thing that was very stark from Li Zhensheng’s archive is all those executions and the purging ... just months before the Cultural Revolution was launched in 1966. Li’s position at ...

Executions included beheadings ... But by the time Mao died on September 9, 1976, the most frenzied era of the Cultural Revolution had already lapsed and the Red Guard was being dispersed.

when he witnessed extrajudicial executions. Later, he turns to the present day: Violence on the scale of the Cultural Revolution, Yu argues, is still officially sanctioned, now in the form of ...

Two weeks later, she was executed. "And so he has spent the ... China's present leader [Xi Jinping] "had a very hard Cultural Revolution." His father had fallen out of favour with Mao, and Red ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ... beaten to death by mobs or executed. As many as 20 million city dwellers were ...

The Cultural Revolution, a decade-long socio-political upheaval initiated ... as a ‘counter-revolutionary’ because her father owned land. She was eventually executed but not before her son struck her ...

He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist ...

In 1979, three years after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the United States. At a state banquet, he was seated near the actress ...