In
Chinese
President
Xi Jinping
‘s recent visit to America, there was a giant hole in the press coverage. Nobody talked about the Cultural Revolution.
In her recent book,
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
, journalist Tania Branigan argues that “you cannot understand modern China without understanding the Cultural Revolution.”
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In my view, Western elites want to forget the Cultural Revolution because the horror that happened in China 50 years ago is too similar to what liberalism is now attempting in the West.
The Cultural Revolution, which took place roughly from 1966 to 1976, was one of the bloodiest and most insane periods in the history of communism. It was an attempt to try and purge Communist China of all Western ideas, from Christianity to capitalism. An estimated 2…
