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During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary…

Destroyed centuries of knowledge. Whoopsie.

As the US descends into chaos, China is pitching itself as the steadier player. But Europe should be wary of its advances, says Orville Schell of the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society

As US and Chinese representatives prepare to meet in Switzerland in an effort to ease their escalating trade war, a potential sign of Beijing’s approach has emerged in an opinion piece published in the state-owned journal Beijing Daily.

May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.

The 20th century was full of techno-utopian visions of the ideal future society. None of them ended well

Mohamed-Zain Dada makes a darkly comic drama out of a speed awareness course, while clever design elevates Amy Ng’s play about Madame Mao

In the latest revelation of Chinese influence among the Taiwanese armed forced, at least 62 active-duty Taiwanese service members have been found holding Chinese residency permits

Many see parallels with the architect of the Cultural Revolution. Both relished disruption and have exploited the power of the mob, says the Guardian’s foreign leader writer Tania Branigan

3/5 Two women across six decades of upheaval are covered in this astonishing true story of Mao Zedong’s revolution

2/5 This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own potential