What was the Cultural Revolution? It was a brutal 10-year period between 1966-76 (with most of the violence occurring in the first five years) that led to hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of ...

The Cultural Revolution was not a single event. It was a decade of upheaval that reshaped China’s society, culture, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The difference between this revolution and those in Germany, China, or Iran, is not of kind, but of degree, and only so far. The similarities between the sentiments of extremists in Iran’s government ...

Explore the impact of Mao's Cultural Revolution on China, revealing chaos, violence, and lasting scars on society.

1. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — Why is it called “cultural”? Superficial observations only revealed brutal struggles, large scale rebellion, or a limited civil war in various places.

Weijian Shan’s life has been one of extraordinary contrasts, from doing hard labor during China’s Cultural Revolution to becoming one of Hong Kong’s most prominent financiers. Shan was 4 years old ...

Can we agree on this much? Twitter was terrible in 2016. Too many tweetstorms, too many Russian troll-bots, too much game theory. For the blank slate of 2017, may I suggest you follow the 50th-year ...

The traditional goal of aesthetics is to produce, by means of art, impressions of certain past elements of life in circumstances where those elements are lacking or absent, in such a way that those ...

A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an exercise in Buddhist practice. By Aatish Taseer and Maxime Fossat “Wild Swans,” a ...