Kenneth Leong·1d agoDid Mao Destroy Traditional Chinese Thought?Revolution, Change, and the Persistence of a Philosophical Heritage
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 30He Sent Mao a Private Letter. Years Later, His Case Helped Launch the Cultural RevolutionPeng Dehuai’s 1959 warning on the Great Leap ended his career. Mao later tied his fall to the play that opened the Cultural Revolution.
Alex Leung·Oct 1Qwen’s Soul-Wrestling When It Encounters Chinese Cultural Revolution HistoryOne Qwen told me a murdered teacher might never have existed. The same Qwen later spent hundreds of lines struggling with whether to admit…
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 17The President Who Was Cremated Under a False NameChina’s own President was killed by his government and cremated under a false name. His children weren’t told for three years.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Aug 25The Apparatus Eats Its Own: When The Architects of Terror Become Its VictimsOn 13 March 1938, Genrikh Yagoda stood trial in the same Moscow courtroom where, two years earlier, he had personally overseen the…
Mal Warwick·Jul 21The roots of this detective’s career lie in China’s Cultural RevolutionFor years, Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau had been widely celebrated as a “rising cadre” in the Communist Party. He…
Charles Hugh Smith·Jan 21Lessons from China’s Cultural RevolutionChina’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) is interesting on multiple levels. The conventional narrative holds that it was the result of a…A response icon3A response icon3
