Pacific Fleet Xi Van Fleet, Cultural Revolution survivor and author Charles “Sam” Faddis, retired CIA clandestine service officer Rod Martin, chairman, Institute for the American Future Brian T.

And that's the way that you can affect what they call a cultural revolution.” CCP cadres hang a placard on the neck of a Chinese man during the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

“I was in the fifth grade when the Cultural Revolution began. We didn’t have textbooks for many years.

Feng Xiaogang’s new film, “Youth,” set during the tumultuous period of the Cultural Revolution, has been abruptly canceled just days prior to its scheduled premiere date, Sept. 29.

"When major outlets repeat reports that many people can immediately recognize as questionable, it resembles the exaggerated production claims seen during the Cultural Revolution. It reflects a continuing pattern of inflated reporting."

The Cultural Revolution was launched by dictator Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his death in 1976. It was a direct attack on the Chinese culture and traditions, resulting in the destruction of religious sites, and millions of deaths.

His students beat him to death during the Cultural Revolution.

The 1981 resolution "on the Cultural Revolution (as a catastrophe) has withstood the test of time and it remains unshakably scientific and authoritative," it said.

The Cultural Revolution finally came to a close with Mao's death on Sept. 9, 1976.

Today is the 50th anniversary of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Just how great was it?

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

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.

"Can you describe the Cultural Revolution using one phrase?"

The Cultural Revolution led to huge violations of human rights.” Local residents and human rights advocates also urged that the event not go ahead.

HONG KONG—The same tactics of propaganda and public criticism that were used in China's Cultural Revolution are being brought out again to try to interfere with the recent University of Hong Kong (HKU) election controversy.

(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.

And the technological revolution of AI is having as much of a cultural and political impact as the Industrial Revolution. What Freddy, Shaun, and all the other World Cup soccer fans are experiencing is a modern-day Tocqueville moment.

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.

The legalization of abortion or gay marriage, for example, would have been unthinkable had the battle not already been lost culturally, had culture not already been radically transformed by the sexual revolution and other forces.

To marshal the best talent in the country, the authorities, shortly after the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, reinstituted the National College Entrance Examination, the so-called Gaokao.

Their stated mission is to revive a culture that was "almost lost" during China's devastating Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Many traditions, including spirituality, were destroyed. Ms.

Once abroad, their aim shifted to the arts to tell the world the truth about communism and revive a culture that was "almost lost" during the repressive Cultural Revolution.

Tens of millions more lives perished in the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution over the next two decades. Guns and tanks at Tiananmen Square likely wiped out thousands in 1989.

Xi Van Fleet, at the University of Virginia (UVA), shares her powerful story of surviving Mao’s Cultural Revolution and offers a warning for America’s future, at 7 p.m. ET on Sept. 25.

The Cultural Revolution was one of the many movements that the Chinese Communist Party led to destroy and distort traditional Chinese culture. Only by cutting religion out of the lives of the people could the CCP truly hold power.

Through such dance pieces, the artists aim to revive a culture that was "almost lost" during China's catastrophic decade-long Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966.

The Cultural Revolution destroyed institutions, shattered social order, and unleashed violence across an entire generation. Violence was not an aberration. It was a method. The CCP is not simply an authoritarian system.

Unlike after the Cultural Revolution, however, there are no reformers left in the Party.

during the Communist Cultural Revolution.

And the Cultural Revolution destroyed all the traditional values and cultures. This show portrayed to me that I did not really learn a lot of real Chinese history when I lived in China until I came to America.