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.

During his youth, Mao became a great admirer of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, from the classic Chinese novel Journey to The West (西游记).

And yet, Trump is currently involved in a cultural revolution as thoroughgoing in its ambitions and potential destructiveness as what Mao unleashed in China in the mid-1960s.

The Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...

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 ...

I was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province right before Mao started the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. And my parents were illiterate workers. We should be the... Workers rule society.

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Wu Yiching's book "The Cultural Revolution at the Margins. Chinese Socialism in Crisis" gives a fascinating account of a period that was decisive… The most famous text from 1968 by the Hunan ...

US President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk are leading a radical effort to dismantle federal bureaucracy.

That’s not the right analogy. The whiz kids had degrees from the finest schools, and were mostly in their 30s and 40s. They ...