Peking; twenty years later, silence. (Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution)

From: National Review | Date: July 18, 1986 | Copyright information

PEKING Twenty years ago this May, a whirlwind called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution began to sweep through China, killing millions of people, overthrowing the country's political foundations, demoralizing elites in industry, the academy, the army, and the Communist Party, and paralyzing the economy for years. It humiliated the present leadership of China, in particular its patriarch Deng Xiaoping, and spread confusion and disaster into almost every corner of Chinese life....

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