Unfortunately, the government of China learned the wrong lessons from the failures of the Great Leap Forward ... by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption ...

The genetic hardware that gave rise to humanity’s unique language capabilities first emerged at least 135,000 years ago, when ...

That’s why some of the worst depredations of the French Revolution and the Spanish Civil War were visited on the clergy. It’s why Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution targeted ...

I survived Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party’s purges. What's happening now reminds me of the CCP’s Central Cultural ...

China’s Cultural Revolution began 50 years ago this week. In the late Fifties, China’s Communist-in-chief, Chairman Mao, began “The Great Leap Forward,” a Communist economic reform that is ...

such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square massacre. During his tour of “The Road toward Renewal” exhibition at the National Museum of China just two ...

While Mao, who launched China’s violent Cultural Revolution ... while from 1958 to 1962, the “Great Leap Forward” (大跃进) to collectivize agriculture resulted in more than 30 million ...

The aging leader wanted to shake up his country, so he launched a second revolution with the help ... disastrous economic experiments of the Great Leap Forward. These whiplash changes in policy ...

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.