Cultural Revolution

9 Dec 2012

In the second of a two-part series looking at the lasting effects of social engineering projects initiated in the 1950s, Hannah Xu meets some of Mao's 'sent-down youth' who never made it home....

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Unsettling old scores

2 Dec 2012

Encouraged to speak out against party injustices and denounced as 'rightists' for doing so, many Chinese suffered years of torment under Mao’s brutal policies. In the first of a two-part series on...

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Details of Cultural Revolution murder exposed

28 Feb 2013

There is an old Chinese saying “It’s not that there is no pay back, it just hasn’t come yet.” This perfectly describes the situation Qiu Riren found himself in last Monday when he was tried for a...

Trial over 1967 killing of doctor sparks netizen debate on Cultural Revolution

21 Feb 2013

A Zhejiang man in his 80s was tried at his home on Monday for allegedly killing a doctor in 1967 during the Cultural Revolution, the state-run China News Service reported on Tuesday. The man,...

Old murder case recalls painful chapter in China's history

20 Feb 2013

A Zhejiang man in his 80s was tried at his home on Monday for allegedly killing a doctor in 1967 during China’s violent Cultural Revolution, Chin

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

'Enemy of the people' historian Song Yongyi gives as good as he gets

Song Yongyi has been locked up twice in his life - both times thanks to the Cultural Revolution. The first time, he was just 21. Having participated in a Red Guard factional fight, he was jailed...

Some vindication of Ping Fu and the malicious Chinese cyber trolls 'persecuting' her with facts

Ping Fu dismisses her critics saying they haven't read her book. The Guardian journalists did and found even more highly unlikely claims.

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Doubts raised over 'flight from China'

The story of American hi-tech entrepreneur Ping Fu is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after...