Cultural Revolution reminders from Chinese bloggers

Translated from yesterday’s post on Wang Xiaofeng’s blog:

Today

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.

I must write something on this day.

I know many readers of my blog

Don’t know anything about that time.

To such people, I say

If you do not know anything about the events 40 years ago

What use is it to know history from 400 or 4,000 years ago?

If you have the patience, listen to this whole recording.

Wang has posted an audio file of the August 1966 radio announcement about the start of the Cultural Revolution together with the words above, you can listen to it from his blog post: Today.

You can see the same announcement on the front page of the People’s Daily on Bingfeng’s blog, Aug 8, 1966: 《The decision about the Cultural Revolution》issued by CCP.

There are more Cultural Revolution images at Ttcen.com. Morning Sun (blocked in China) is a superb resource of Cultural Revolution texts, photos, audio and video materials about the ten years of chaos.

This entry was posted in Internet, Media and Advertising, Newspapers, Radio and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.