China, Democracy, Populism, & Domestic Politics Review: The Cultural Revolution still haunts China

PWH Visiting Fellow Nathan Law reviews the new book Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution for Chatham House

The Cultural Revolution, a decade-long socio-political upheaval initiated by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966, caused as many as two million deaths and reshaped China. Under the influence of Mao’s personality cult, an entire nation was mobilized to purge the ‘reactionary elements’ in society and the Chinese Communist Party through public denunciation and demolition of traditional heritages.

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