Cultural Revolution

How the Cultural Revolution Turned China Against Itself

How the Cultural Revolution Turned China Against Itself

Yang Jisheng's remarkable historical autopsy, The World Turned Upside Down, is scrupulous in detailing the Cultural Revolution's horrors and insanities but too often leaves out the human side of history.

Dancing the Tango Through Mao’s Cultural Revolution With Argentinian Pancho and His Orchestra

Dancing the Tango Through Mao’s Cultural Revolution With Argentinian Pancho and His Orchestra

On Shanghai dance halls of the late '30s and a vinyl tango artifact that survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Standing at the Edge of a Cliff: China in Two Books