DOGE’s rampage through institutions has parallels in China’s Cultural Revolution
I survived Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party’s purges. What's happening now reminds me of the CCP’s Central Cultural ...
The Economist7d
American politics prompt some Chinese to explore historical taboos
Yet in online discussion of American politics, censors provide leeway. When mocking or lamenting the Trumpian world, Chinese ...
The Harvard Crimson6y
Fairbank's Senate Testimony on China: U.S. Should Be Firm in Vietnam While Widening Peking Contact
Chairman Mao even thinks of himself as the successor to Marx, Lenin and Stalin, whereas in actual fact, as the ruler of China, he is much more a successor of the emperors who ruled at Peking until ...
The Economist4y
Shock troops
On May 16th 1966 China launched its cultural revolution. To mark the 50th anniversary, we are republishing our coverage of events that month. One after another they fall: newspaper editors ...