The Cultural Revolution, previously known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a multifaceted affair undergirded by a vicious, fanatical campaign to destroy the “Four Olds.”

Revolution Begins The Cultural Revolution began in earnest at Beijing’s top school for the children of Chinese Communist Party élite.

Wong Tung Hon is a 75-year-old survivor who escaped China during the cultural revolution. He was one of the students who got sent down to the countryside.

Jekielek: Why don’t we start with you explaining what the Cultural Revolution was? Ms. Van Fleet: Mao implemented a lot of disastrous policies before the Cultural Revolution.

Meanwhile, Pol Pot was waging a cultural revolution in Cambodia that would erase over 2 million lives.

The result of the Cultural Revolution is the total destruction of the society, and that's what awaits us if we don't stop it."

Chinese Americans who experienced the Cultural Revolution in China want to educate their American counterparts on what they see as the American version of the Culture Revolution in the 21st century.

I grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China. Most of the people in China are of the same ethnic background, so there is no race card to play.

Turkel is no stranger to the Cultural Revolution—he was born in a Chinese re-education camp where his mother was imprisoned at the height of the violent mass movement that started in 1966.

CRT Versus Chinese Cultural Revolution Van Fleet realized that today's woke revolution, driven by CRT, has "a twin brother"—the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which derived from Mao's Class Conflict Theory (CCT).

After the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formed public-private partnerships to wipe out political opponents and wealthy capitalists.

And when the Cultural Revolution started, I was a first grader and I spent my entire school years in the Cultural Revolution.

Wong is the author of a new book release, “Swimming to Freedom: My Untold Story of Escaping the Cultural Revolution.” He was a Chinese refugee who swam to Hong Kong from the Chinese border in the south during the Cultural Revolution.

Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China During the Cultural Revolution, anything even slightly related to religion was suppressed as one of the “Four Olds”—old customs, old culture, old habits, and old

Liberals and conservatives will need to be allies in an effort to fight a growing Marxist cultural revolution taking place across America, according to Israeli philosopher and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, Yoram Hazony.

Ekai’s long-lost journal bears witness to the turmoil created by the Chinese occupation in the 1950s through the terror of the Cultural Revolution, recording its horrors with cogent eloquence.

Self Loathing But this is always the totalitarian way, from the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Revolution to Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The world must be born anew.

"The anti-religious extremism over Cultural Revolution was followed by a gradual increasing tolerance in the early 1990s and 2000s—the Party's bloody campaign against the Falun Gong representing a notable and tragic exception."

Gao, along with his younger brother, Gao Qiang, created sculptures, paintings, and photographs inspired by memories of their father, who died in custody after being arrested as a “counter-revolutionary” during the Cultural Revolution.

The official obituary, however, omits the mention of “rightist” and the Cultural Revolution entirely.

doctrines as well as the legacy of the Cultural Revolution.

Zhu’s Legacy of Economic Reform After the decade-long Cultural Revolution pushed the regime to the brink, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Deng Xiaoping pivoted China toward market reforms.

Zhu's rise to the premiership was supported by Deng Xiaoping, Jiang's predecessor, who initiated economic reform in the 1970s in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. 

"In the face of profiteering capitalist irresponsibility, we respond at every moment with mutual aid and new disciplines for life in society," he said, describing the "citizens' revolution" his movement advocates as "a cultural revolution, a concrete

Counterpoint: Jiang was a Soviet-trained “bourgeois” engineer who should have been a Cultural Revolution target yet was never purged and quietly climbed the technical ranks to Shanghai’s mayoralty by 1985.

China's communist era, beginning with Mao Zedong's 1949 declaration of the People's Republic, is similarly detailed, including the Great Leap Forward famine and the Cultural Revolution.

The enthusiast said that on one occasion, customs officers confiscated a book related to China's Cultural Revolution and fined him 500 yuan ($74).

Soviet bread lines, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and the Cambodian killing fields are not lived memories but instead historical chapters competing for attention in an age dominated by social media and 20-second video clips.

In his view, this pattern did not end with the Cultural Revolution but has continued in different forms.