In China, Song Binbin was the face of Cultural Revolution turmoil, the Red Guard who helped spark the deadly persecution of teachers and was given a nickname that means “militant” by Mao Zedong. In ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself for the ...

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Late one night in 1958, a man named Liu Bingshu whispered to his wife, the mother of their four young children, “There is no escape. I could be taken away … If I can come back, we will see each other ...

Paul Salopek spent three years crossing the communist country on foot while witnessing the forces reshaping it. Read the latest adventure in his bold quest to walk the entire world. Mao Zedong, whose ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the Vietnam War, trying psychedelic drugs, embracing free love and discovering the ...