“This is an extremely shocking situation—such things didn’t even happen during the Cultural Revolution,” he said. “It’s so evil. “Logically speaking, these officials are their own people, yet they are treating them this way.

Trading Lives for Freedom During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), in 1968 hundreds of thousands of educated Guangdong youth escaped to Hong Kong.

Adapted from a Cultural Revolution-era poster emblazoned with the words "Smash the Old World, Establish the New World." (The Epoch Times) Buddhist statues are set on fire during the Culture Revolution.

Spring Festival celebration with the highest tension took place during the Cultural Revolution, when the motto of "destroying the four olds" was chanted every day, resulting in widespread violence.

(Public Domain) Young Red Guards brandish copies of Chairman Mao's “Little Red Book” in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The Red Guards rampaged through Chinese towns, terrorizing people, particularly the elderly.

Revolution in 1966.

During the Cultural Revolution, CCP leader Mao Zedong warmed up to the United States, which led to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visiting China in 1971 on behalf of President Nixon.

Huang died in 1965, not knowing the suffering and tragedies of his family during the Cultural Revolution.

The magazine's stance supported the Cultural Revolution of China and the Baodiao movement.

When China's universities resumed admissions of qualified students after the Cultural Revolution, higher education was rare, with only 2.7 percent of the college-aged population admitted to universities in 1978.

Mao Zedong, the first CCP leader, oversaw the 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution, a political movement that aimed to dismantle Chinese religious life and traditional culture.

Peng's banner read in Chinese: "We don't want nucleic acid testing, we want food to eat; we don't want lockdowns, we want freedom; we don't want lies, we want dignity; we don't want Cultural Revolution, we want reform; we don't want [dictatorial] leaders

The advent of the reform and opening up after the Cultural Revolution made the Chinese think otherwise, as they felt embarrassed being presented emblems by foreign cities when they formed friendship cities.

Although Mao himself carried out the self-criticism demanded by the conference, his political struggle eventually evolved into the 1963 Socialist Education Movement and, finally, the Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966.

But recent years have proven that the Left has no problem bringing about a cultural revolution, even a cultural apocalypse. Michael Anton, one of the contributors to "Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right After a Generation of Decay."

But of course the phrase also carries the aura of an even higher authority: that of Mao Zedong and his long march and cultural revolution.

"Through campaigns like the Cultural Revolution, it has systematically uprooted traditional beliefs and destroyed ancient treasures, bringing 5,000 years of civilization to the brink of extinction."

Some experts believe that the Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976) has caused this problem.

Chinese communist regime sent almost all scholars, literati, and teachers to rural areas to work as farmers, as well as humiliate them in public during the cultural revolution.

Drawing on a more recent historical episode, a major feature of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) under Mao Zedong was the extermination of old ideas, old customs, old culture, and old habits.

Ya, ya, I know the folks in charge of it thought they were doing the right thing, but so did Chairman Mao when he unleashed his own cultural revolution. It was wrong.

This poster, displayed in late 1966 in Beijing, shows Red Guards how to deal with a so-called "enemy of the people" during the Cultural Revolution.

of the communist revolution.

It was this rekindling of China’s spiritual and moral foundation, quashed during the Cultural Revolution, that lit the ire of then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin in 1999, and the campaign to eliminate Falun Gong that continues today.

Guo, in the history of the CCP, the two most turbulent periods in society were the late Cultural Revolution (1960s-1970s) and the early stage of Chinese Economic Reform (1980s-1990s).

Mao’s Cultural Revolution began in 1966, and was brought to an end by Deng in 1976 as “a grave mistake” in the CCP’s history.

All this was, of course, long before any of us knew of such things as the Chinese communist Great Leap Forward and Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution or the Soviet gulags or Stalin’s mass starvation of Ukraine and all the many millions who died from

The first five-year plans were also disrupted to the point of uselessness by the societal and economic upheaval during Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

“Once again, the Biden Administration is weaponizing the federal government, overrunning the Constitution to advance leftist indoctrination and promote a cultural revolution.”

The National Museum of China, for example, has few exhibitions dedicated to Chinese history past 1949, and it certainly does not cover such bothersome events (at least to the Chinese Communist Party) as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution,