Cultural revolution

With his camera and red arm band, he captured the dark side of Mao’s revolution at great personal risk. Many of the images were stashed under a floor, going undeveloped for years.

To that end, Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.

Mao Zedong Cultural Revolution 1966~1976

Under Mao Zedong, China underwent a spasm of violence called the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, which threatened its ancient heritage.

Photographer Bruno Barbey has been taking color photos of China — from its elites to its everyday citizens — since 1973.

A survivor of Chinese Communism notes similarities between the cultural revolution promoted by America's progressives and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse Tung. Both target the "Four Olds" (Old Culture, Old Customs, Old Habits, and Old Ideas) by destroying monuments, eliminating books, and humiliating representatives of the old order.

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Red Guards were a mass paramilitary social movement of young people in the People's Republic of China (PRC), who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution. According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows: "Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red soldiers, who can stop us? First we will make China red from inside out and then…

Whilst to an outsider Chinese culture can seem complex and confusing a large part of being successful in China requires a basic level of cultural understanding which is often lacking when foreign e…

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