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How the Cultural Revolution Turned China Against Itself
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How the Cultural Revolution Turned China Against Itself

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 / 26 January 2021

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.

Chinese Cinema Through a Communist Lens
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Chinese Cinema Through a Communist Lens

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 / 6 January 2011

Chinese filmmakers Hu Sang and Xiaoning Feng go to great pains to conflate China and Tibet as simpatico cultures unified against the West in these samples of Chinese Cinema filmed through a Communist lens.