PBS Global Voices – Morning Sun (2003)
English | Size: 1.99 GB
Category: Documentary

Few events of the twentieth century have so dramatically engulfed such a large proportion of humanity as China’s "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". Millions suffered and untold others died, yet the Cultural Revolution remains only barely understood. There is little agreement on when it began (1964 or mid-1966), how long it lasted (three years, 1966-69, or a decade, 1966-76), what it was about (culture, revolution, power struggles, or Mao Zedong’s monomania), or what it achieved ; a true Marxist-Leninist revolution, the prelude to the reform era, or was it just a meaningless period of political zealotry and chaos? [Read more…]

PBS Global Voices – Morning Sun (2003)
English | Size: 1.99 GB
Category: Documentary

Few events of the twentieth century have so dramatically engulfed such a large proportion of humanity as China’s "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". Millions suffered and untold others died, yet the Cultural Revolution remains only barely understood. There is little agreement on when it began (1964 or mid-1966), how long it lasted (three years, 1966-69, or a decade, 1966-76), what it was about (culture, revolution, power struggles, or Mao Zedong’s monomania), or what it achieved ; a true Marxist-Leninist revolution, the prelude to the reform era, or was it just a meaningless period of political zealotry and chaos? [Read more…]