
Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution
From Conversations
Published 6/25/2025

From Conversations
Published 6/25/2025
China's cultural revolution was murderously violent and culturally devastating; millions of people, artefacts and ideas went up in smoke. So what's fuelling today's Neo-Maoist movement and nostalgia for that period?In 1966, the Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong went to war against his own…