Viewpoint
09.08.16

Mao the Man, Mao the God

Sergey Radchenko

Mao Zedong was dying a slow, agonizing death. Diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in...

Caixin Media
12.02.15

Zhang Zhixin: The Woman who Took on the ‘Gang of Four’

Sheila Melvin

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The desire not to dwell on that tumultuous decade, after half a century has passed, is understandable, but the failure to reflect on its impact, offer a...

My First Trip
12.31.12

After Ping Pong, Before Kissinger

Robert Keatley

My first trip to China apparently began in Montreal.

It was April 1971, and the American ping-pong team had just been invited to China, opening the public part of the complex diplomacy that eventually brought Richard Nixon to Beijing and...

The NYRB China Archive
04.19.73

Up Against the Wall at Tsinghua U.

Ross Terrill
from New York Review of Books

Some Chinese refer to their lives before and after the Cultural Revolution as if that storm of the Sixties were a religious conversion. Like John Bunyan writing with enthusiastic horror of his unregenerate days, the cadre or craftsman today says...