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 ...

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 ...

Many of us can recall in the 1960s that Communist China was going through a period of insanity and chaos called The Cultural ...

Several recent, retrospective pieces describe how various individuals have attempted to navigate the CCP’s repressive policies over time, and how that has impacted their family relationships. For many ...

Burden or legacy : from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to contemporary art / Jiang Jiehong -- From Red Guard art to contemporary art / Wang Mingxian -- The image of Mao Zedong and contemporary ...

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.