A film intended to explore the trauma of the Cultural Revolution sparked millions of views and nostalgic Maoist slogans before censors stepped in.
Gen Z revives Mao-era film as anti-privilege manifesto
The Cultural Revolution, human nature, and being a woman
An Interview with Liu Haiou: China Unofficial Archives.
I came, I suffered, I survived
“A Single Tear” and Chinese intellectuals under Mao.
Yang Xiaokai’s “Captive Spirits”
A clandestine network of Mao-era dissidents, “numerous as ox hairs,” shatter myths of Communist ideological unity while anchoring modern China’s freedom struggles in this unbroken lineage of defiance.
JFK files reveal CIA targeted Canadian group
The JFK dossier turns up the surprising inclusion of a Toronto-based organization that may have influenced the West’s China pivot.
Observing Mao’s Deathday, with Dai Qing
The China Heritage e-journal reflects on the death of Mao and his posthumous career in the company of China’s legendary investigative reporter, Dai Qing.
The West mimics Mao
Takes a Green Leap Forward.
Things you may not know about the history of the Three Gorges Dam Project
(February 8, 2012) Admissions of trouble at Three Gorges Dam by China’s powerful State Council last spring, left many wondering how the behemoth dam ever got off the drawing board. Now, in a first, behind the scenes, account of raw power politics, Guo Yushan from China’s Transition Institute describes how Three Gorges critics were silenced, and China’s power mandarins maneuvered, to build the world’s largest and most troubled dam. Read this translation by Probe International of the article that went viral on China’s Internet.
Mao Yushi’s economic criticism of Three Gorges Dam
(June 20, 2011) Economist Mao Yushi’s criticism of the Three Gorges Dam in Dai Qing’s 1988 Yangtze! Yangtze! proves accurate more than two decades later in the wake of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s acknowledgement of problems.
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