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Tag Archives: Cultural Revolution
Chicken blood injections and other health crazes
Zhang Wuben wasn’t the first purveyor of peculiar miracle cures. In the mid-20th Century, Chinese citizens endured fads of chicken blood injections, kombucha, water, and hand-waving.
Posted in Health care and pharmaceuticals
Tagged @classic, Cultural Revolution, history, medicine, miracle cures, pseudoscience, Yu Changshi, Zhang Wuben
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Old Beijing Man talks about Mao and Cultural Revolution
Today’s China maybe fully embraces capitalism and is on the fast track to prosperity, but what may be regarded by many as a failed ideology still manages to find ways to manifest itself.
Posted in Video
Tagged Beijing, communism, Cultural Revolution, Mao
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Writing the history of the Gang of Four
Ye Yonglie completes a massive history of the Gang of Four.
Posted in Books
Tagged biography, books, Cultural Revolution, Gang of Four, Ye Yonglie
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How the Nazis brought about the end of the Cultural Revolution
How The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was translated and circulated in China, from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Posted in Books
Tagged books, China Newsweek, Cultural Revolution, Hitler, Nazis, New Century Weekly, translation
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A personal history of the beginning of the Red Guards
A new blog and the blogger’s translation of an article about the early days of the Cultural Revolution.
Posted in Blogs
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Liu Jin, Qinghua Middle School, revolution
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40 million new poor
China raised the poverty line from annual income of 1067 RMB to 1300. The change of the measurement caused a two-fold growth of China’s poor people: from 40 million to 80 million.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Bank of China, Cultural Revolution, heritage, Lhasa, Olympics, revolution, The Beijing News, Tibet, Wahaha
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Mao Zedong Thought cures deaf mutes
A Cultural Revolution video showing deaf mute ids cured by Mao Zedong thought.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, propaganda
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Private argot in the public sphere
YWeekend (青年周末) comments on slang in subtitles. Wu Fei (吴非) writes about gang language and cultural revolution slang.
Posted in Blogs, Scholarship and education, Trends and Buzz
Tagged @classic, Cultural Revolution, gangsters, slang, Wu Fei, YWeekend
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Cultural Revolution reminders from Chinese bloggers
Today is August 8. For people superstitious about numbers, it’s a lucky day. But this day 40 years ago was the start of a disaster. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution formally started on this day. And lasted until October of 1976.
Posted in Internet, Media and Advertising, Newspapers, Radio
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Wang Xiaofeng
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