In October 2025, Beijing expelled nine generals from the party and the armed forces; among them He Weidong, the second-ranking officer on the Central Military Commission and the first sitting member of that body to be purged since the Cultural Revolution

"China has 5,000 years or more of culture that we've lost in the Cultural Revolution in China, that was wiped away in such a short time. But I think the people of China are ready for something like this," Mr. Hamilton-Parker said.

“I think this is a continuation of the Cultural Revolution because as long as there is no real reflection on the Cultural Revolution, then the entire Chinese society is continuing the Cultural Revolution," he said. Mr.

Shen Yun hopes to restore a divinely inspired culture that was “almost lost” during China’s Cultural Revolution. The New York-based dance company presents “China before communism.” They also present China today and its human rights issues. Mr.

She was born in the middle of the Cultural Revolution—one of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong’s campaigns that targeted traditional Chinese culture, killing an estimated millions.

Cheng graduated from high school during the Cultural Revolution.

Guo recounted a tragic incident during the Cultural Revolution. In August 1975, more than 60 reservoirs in Henan's Zhumadian region collapsed, resulting in the deaths of more than 230,000 people.

In his view, the further the Party moves away from reform, and the more it revives practices reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, the more it feels compelled to invoke the banner of reform. Sheng offered a similar assessment.

During the 1966–76 Cultural Revolution, the scarf became the symbol of the Red Guards, a student-led paramilitary group mobilized by former CCP leader Mao Zedong.

During the Cultural Revolution, which spanned a decade, 1966-1976, books were burned, artworks smashed, and temples razed. Mr.

Following the catastrophic Cultural Revolution led by CCP founding leader Mao Zedong, the communist regime largely abandoned any lofty revolutionary ideals.

In providing context for its mission to revive China’s culture, Shen Yun explains on its website that the Chinese Communist Party has systematically uprooted China’s traditional culture with campaigns such as the Cultural Revolution, “bringing 5,000 years

Ever since the Cultural Revolution, the country has taken on a completely different form. We, Japanese people, feel a deep sense of sorrow over this.

"They are calling for the public exoneration of the Cultural Revolution," said Mr. Yuan, adding that the Maoists see Bo Xilai as their political ideological leader. Mr.

Kang Sheng (top right) during the Cultural Revolution, with Jiang Qing and Zhou Enlai.

During the Cultural Revolution, which spanned a decade, 1966-1976, books were burned, artworks smashed, and temples razed. Mr.

The year 1976 also marked the end of the Cultural Revolution, a national catastrophe that profoundly affected China.

Xi Van Fleet shares her story of surviving China’s Cultural Revolution. (The Epoch Times) Her earliest memory is of the Cultural Revolution, led by Mao Zedong. It began when she was in the first grade and lasted ten of her school years.

The sculptor wanted to honor the survivors who fled communist China during the Cultural Revolution and remind the international community that true freedom remains elusive under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“The CCP under Xi Jinping has been carrying out its most systematic campaign of religious and political persecution since the Cultural Revolution,” the lawmaker wrote in letters addressed to the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The chapter’s title is “From Communist China’s Cultural Revolution to American CRT.”

“During the Cultural Revolution, despite the political turmoil, the CCP still engaged in conflicts such as the battle on Zhenbao Island,' Mr. Shi said. "The political will of the top echelons of the CCP is paramount."

“If we are in the throes of a quasi-Cultural Revolution, we don't quite know how it eventually ends,” Mr. Smith said.

The political nature of the new campaign is actually much more like the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Mr. Lehberger said.

He served as the head of the military’s general logistics department during the turbulent years of the “Cultural Revolution” and retired from the political arena two years after the Cultural Revolution ended.

He cited the rapid promotion of loyalists and the resurgence of Cultural Revolution–style propaganda as sources of internal resentment.

(Shiping/The Epoch Times) Several Chinese democracy groups in Queens also held a June 1 seminar in Flushing to mark the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the 60th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, and current international affairs.

The tragedy of the Cultural Revolution therefore extended beyond the physical suffering it inflicted. It was also an attempt to break the continuity of Chinese civilization and replace historical memory with revolutionary mythology.

“Raising a red flag over Philadelphia with a star in the corner is meaningless, forgetting the Cultural Revolution and the almost 100 million people killed in the various persecutions over the years when the communists took over, when [President of the

Many of these students were the Red Guards who were active at the beginning of the “Great Cultural Revolution,” which the CCP initiated to erase traditional Chinese culture and Western ideals of democracy and freedom.