A visitor tours the Educated Youth Museum in Heihe, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Photo: Xinhua After more than four decades, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) is not forgotten in China.

China’s current president, Xi Jinping, also was caught up in the Cultural Revolution. He was “sent down” during the period, spending six years living in a cave in the northwestern ...

Reporting from Beijing — During China’s decade-long Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976 ... “My most terrifying memory is from when I was 6,” he continued. “Red Guards pushed my ...

Clip #8: “Official Verdict?” (6:03). What did China’s communist party “turn toward” after the Cultural Revolution? Why does Mao Zedong remain a “cultural touchpoint” in China?

BEIJING — During China’s decadelong Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976 ... “My most terrifying memory is from when I was 6,” he continued. “Red Guards pushed my grandma to the ...

She has dedicated her life to researching and documenting the Cultural Revolution: that spasm of violence that took place in China during the ... labor of this sort for six years.

Two childhood friends met and then grew apart in the Chinese city of Guangzhou as the Cultural Revolution was at its height. Nearly six decades later they were reunited in Hong Kong after one read ...

"I wanted to understand not only what the Cultural Revolution had done to China but how it was still shaping it," Branigan writes, about a decade beginning in 1966 of extreme political violence ...