Song Binbin, perhaps the most infamous “Red Guard” of the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 77 on Monday, September 16. Song, the daughter of one of the Party’s powerful “Eight Immortals,” was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song tying a red armband for Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the ...

“3 Body Problem,” a Netflix adaptation of the popular Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the Cultural Revolution. Yangyang Cheng, fellow and ...

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 ...

In China, Song Binbin was the face of Cultural Revolution turmoil, the Red Guard who helped spark the deadly persecution of teachers and was given a nickname that means “militant” by Mao Zedong. In ...

1. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — Why is it called “cultural”? Superficial observations only revealed brutal struggles, large scale rebellion, or a limited civil war in various places.

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 ...

Many of us can recall in the 1960s that Communist China was going through a period of insanity and chaos called The Cultural Revolution. Mobs of students and true believers called the Red Guard roamed ...