From an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Hu Jingbei, an economics professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, discusses a diary he kept during the Cultural Revolution and looks back on those days with a combination of horror... ...full story at Peking Duck
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Monologue vid: Chinese Cultural Revolution »
YouTube video I'm back after a long absence of videos, and yeah, I'm ugly as ever. This is actually my English homework, and thanks to the teacher having such a great idea of a Cultural Revolution video, I have on my account my 2nd Monologue video, after the first one... |
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Cultural Revolution Propaganda » Ben's Blog This past summer, my former fellow Fuzhouite Ron Sims (aka "Black Man in China"), asked me to find some of those old Cultural Revolution style posters and bring them back to the US. In addition to being a prolific podcaster, Ron is also a talented artis... |
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