Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the bloody Chinese “Cultural Revolution” when on August 18 1966 she was photographed overlooking an immense rally in Tiananmen ...

Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 196667 during the Cultural Revolution A group of students at Qinghua University who issued 2 bigcharacter posters in MayJune 1966 called ...

It was the C3 and C4 vertebrae – right up top, behind the jaw – that fractured in Jared Roark’s neck during an arrest near the Capitol a few days after Donald Trump got elected. That Sunday (Nov. 13, ...

Into the echoing marble depths of Peking’s Great Hall of the People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall ...

She was said to have been involved in the first killing of an educator during the Cultural Revolution, drawing official praise. She later apologized for her actions. By Trip Gabriel Song Binbin, a ...

China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has changed course numerous times in its tumultuous 27-month existence. The alternating current is provided, of course, by Mao Tse-tung. His heart is with ...

More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's Cultural Revolution. In 1966, the Red Guards ironically ...

I’m ambivalent about statues and J.K. Rowling being torn down, but terrified of the thought process behind the destruction. Decisions should never be made by mobs. Is America on the edge of a cultural ...

Michael Browne, a Briton and Christian free-lance journalist, dispatched this report from Hong Kong after a trip last month to Canton, southern provincial capital of Communist China: “Chairman Mao is ...

The World Turned Upside Down. By Yang Jisheng. Translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 768 pages; $40. AS MOST PEOPLE understand it, the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 was a ...