cultural revolution

chinahopelive.net — If you look at examples like the recent hit-and-run toddler death in light of the Great Leap Forward and its legacy (which includes the Cultural Revolution), contemporary Chinese society starts to make a little more sense. Just reading the 2010 "Mao's Great Famine" eats away at your humanity, but what if you'd lived through it?

chinahopelive.net — One Chinese author's quest to salvage first-hand accounts of Maoist China - and the dignity and humanity of an entire generation - before it's too late: "This madness has taken hold of me, and will not let me go: I cannot believe that Chinese people always take the truth of their lives with them to the grave."

www.thechinatimes.com — August 18, 1966, Mao Zedong met with Red Guards in Tiananmen Square for the first time, opened the national Red Guard movement. During the early stage of the Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong met with Red Guards eight times, received more than 12 million students and other young people in Tiananmen Square.

gochengdoo.com — In an interview sinologist and hobby photographer Thomas Hahn talks about the expat life in the 1980s in Chengdu and how much it has changed.

www.gochengdoo.com — American David Gleit was studying Mandarin in Taiwan when the mainland opened its doors to the outside world. He took the opportunity to visit in April and December 1978 and again in the 1980s and has returned periodically ever since. Luckily for us, each time he was armed with a decent camera and documented the changes over the decades.