Mao Zedong and China’s Cultural Revolution​

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A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Political Amnesia, The New York Times, 2019
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist leader from the 1940's to 1976 when he died. In the 1960's, he began the Cultural Revolution which was a way to denounce the old capitalistic and traditional ways in China. They wanted to purify the country by banning works of art and other forms of media.

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Journal of Modern Chinese History
Journal of Contemporary China
​The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Historiographical Study


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