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It’s estimated that millions of people died in the Cultural Revolution. The Chinese government itself says that a hundred million people suffered. Mao had quite deliberately unleashed social ...

The young people of China’s Cultural Revolution had what Musk’s shock troops have: the crystalline pure certainty of the young and ignorant. Speaking as someone who was a passionate ...

such as the critically lauded Revolution is not a Dinner Party and her recent Growing Up Under a Red Flag, both set during China’s Cultural Revolution. She has penned several cookbooks ...

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Samples of Majiayao pottery from Majiayao phase. Credit: Gruschke / CC BY-SA 3.0 Archaeologists in China have discovered the largest known settlement of the ancient Majiayao culture in Gansu Province ...

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