“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 ...

Thakin Than Tun, the chairman of the Communist Party of Burma is popular for his leadership in "Cultural Revolution". There were some policies changes during 1960s within CPB. Ne Win military ...

She was a victim of China’s Cultural Revolution, executed by firing squad during Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s decadelong purge of capitalism, cultural elites and political rivals. As a 15-year-old ...

she was executed. This son who sent his mother to her death is one of Tania Branigan’s many compelling subjects in “Red Memory,” a book about how the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 is ...

who’d lived in America! As the Glorious Cultural Revolution ground on for four more years, Chen escaped to Canada with her husband, where she wrote the stories in “The Execution of Mayor Yin.” Chen’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lin, a Peking University student persecuted during the anti-Rightist Campaign, was executed at the height of the Cultural Revolution on April 29, 1968. Lin had joined the Party in her teens but be ...

She was branded a counter-revolutionary and later executed. Such horrors were not uncommon during China’s Cultural Revolution, a decade of Maoist madness that began in 1966. Gangs of Red Guards ...

"I wanted to understand not only what the Cultural Revolution had done to China but how it was still shaping it," Branigan writes, about a decade beginning in 1966 of extreme political violence ...

“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 ...