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 ...

From seminal movies to social movements, America is in the midst of marking 50-year anniversaries of revolutions in culture. China, conversely, has been quite quiet about noting the Cultural ...

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a Bates Museum Intern this fall. Although it was not a normal semester, by any means, I still found myself engaged and surprised by all the wonderful opportunities ...

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 ...

Introduction -- Revolutionary Chinese poster and their impact abroad / by Lincoln Cushing -- People, poverty, politics, and posters /by Ann tompkins -- Nature and transformation -- Production and ...

As Gao Zhen awaits trial in China, his wife and child live in limbo, unable to return to America, sustained by the portraits he fashions from scraps of paper. By Lily Kuo Decades ago, a Chinese ...

With this month’s issue, The New Criterion commences its tenth year of publication. It seems an appropriate moment in which to cast a glance over a decade that has witnessed historic changes of the ...

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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.