Episode 52: The Cultural Revolution Part VIII-The Silent Revolution
After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, a fierce political battle ensued for the soul of modern China. But it was the ordinary people of China who had spent the past 10 years fighting through chaos, vi...
19 Feb 201950min
Episode 51: The Cultural Revolution Part VII-Mobilizing for War
In the 1970's Red Guards and "undesirables" were forced to toil away in rural China working at re-education camps or doing manual labor in the people's communes. The ordinary people of China continued...
12 Feb 201937min
Episode 50: The Cultural Revolution Part VI-The Army Intervenes
The Cultural Revolution began as a campaign against bad class elements, but spiraled out of control as counter-revolutions emerged throughout the country between rebel groups and the local party estab...
5 Feb 201924min
Episode 49: The Cultural Revolution Part V-The Hidden Victims
By 1967, China was engulfed in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. But the violence of the counter-revolutions and counter-counter-revolutions was not the only source of misery for ordinary people i...
29 Jan 201916min
Episode 48: The Cultural Revolution Part IV-Red August
By the end of August in 1966, it was clear that the Cultural Revolution was going to be a unique historical period of violence and upheaval. Violence and brutality were becoming routine, symptoms of t...
22 Jan 201929min
Episode 47: The Cultural Revolution Part III-A Culture of Paranoia
During the first month of the Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong unleashed a whirlwind of chaos and confusion in China. Mao mobilized students as "Red Guards"- one part student group, one part paramilitar...
15 Jan 201920min
Episode 46: The Cultural Revolution Part II-Nine Fingers to One
After the deaths of tens of millions of people during the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong had to re-establish control over the Communist Party in China. Through a process of political maneuvering and r...
8 Jan 201929min
Episode 45: The Cultural Revolution Part I-No Half Measures
The Cultural Revolution in China lasted roughly from 1966-1976. But the cultural disintegration and scars left from Mao Zedong's final campaign of terror and violence will last for generations to come...
17 Dec 201821min
