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 ...

A prominent Chinese artist known for his scathing political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, according to his brother and artistic partner. Gao Zhen, 68, ...

When Nie Yuanzi put up a vitriolic wall poster one day in 1966, she plunged into the political maelstrom of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. For the rest of her life, Nie wrestled with the fame, and ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix ‘Song Binbin, Poster Woman for Mao’s Bloody Upheaval, Dies at 77.” That is the heading over an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gao Zhen, left, and his brother Gao Qiang, with their sculpture, 'Mao's Guilt', in Beijing, in 2009 - SHIHO FUKADA/NYTNS / Redux / ...

Donald Trump is not Mao Zedong, and Trump would never be able to march 1,000 miles in pursuit of a goal, but what they have in common is that they both launched a Cultural Revolution, a purification ...

Lafayette author Ying Chang Compestine understands that China’s Cultural Revolution might not be an obvious topic for an illustrated children’s book. But Compestine isn’t the first writer to use a ...

A Virginia mom who endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial ...

MSRL copy Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment. How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), ...

China's Chairman Mao Zedong in a black-and-white image from 1959. (Public domain in China/Wikipedia via Courthouse News) Seeking guidance for survival in a bizarre era, I turned to someone who ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — A prominent Chinese artist known for his scathing political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, according to his brother and artistic ...