Cultural revolution

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York College professor recalls that cataclysmic event, which began 50 years ago on May 16.

The Red Guards in Beijing also raided the homes of politicians, academics, writers and artists, and attacked those in families belonging to the “Five Black Categories” – landlords, rich farmers, counter-revolutionaries, bad influencers and rightists. Anarchy spread throughout the country as Beijing endorsed the violence and encouraged people to rise up against their local governments. Politicians and intellectuals are targeted and abused in public humiliation rallies, known as “struggle…

Photographer Bruno Barbey has been taking color photos of China — from its elites to its everyday citizens — since 1973.

Red Guards were a mass paramilitary social movement of young people in the People's Republic of China (PRC), who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution. According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows: "Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red soldiers, who can stop us? First we will make China red from inside out and then…

With his camera and red arm band, he captured the dark side of Mao’s revolution at great personal risk. Many of the images were stashed under a floor, going undeveloped for years.

Cultural Revolution

From Letters from China blog: The photographs were taken by Woeser (ÂîØËâ≤)’s father, a Tibetan People’s Liberation Army’s officer: The Red Guards who damaged the Jokhang Temple. Most of them were the students of Lhasa Secondary School. There was a portrait of Mao Zedong. The banner reads: “Completely destroy the old world! We shall be […]

The denounced parents of modern-day Chinese leaders are a reminder of the Cultural Revolution's legacy.