Cultural Revolution

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• Stalin, Mao, and Lin Biao born in December

  
  MSH — Authority: 120
  Stalin, Mao, and Lin Biao born in December (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Three great revolutionaries were born in December. Stalin was born on December 21st, 1887. Stalin is remembered for his great accomplishment of leading the Soviet Union through socialist construction. He is also remembered for making the ...
  4 days ago

• Iran’s Mousavi fired as head of Arts Institution

  
  Voices of the Middle East & North Africa — Authority: 117
  From BBC News The Council for Cultural Revolution , a high-ranking body chaired by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dismissed him on Tuesday night, state media said. Mr Mousavi had run the institution, affiliated to the president’s office, since its inception 11 years ago. In recent days, hardliners have urged ...
  1 week ago

• Yang Xianyi

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Translator of the Chinese classics who spent seven years in jail during the Cultural Revolution
  2 weeks ago

• Things that make me sad ...

  
  gweipo ?? — Authority: 124
  Ive become an old softie. I can cry at the drop of a hat. Even in joyous moments I can see sadness. What is the matter with me? Today there were lots of graduates and their parents / grandparents / aunties / uncles (and of course the Hello Kitty soft toys - what would a University Campus be without them?). They ...
  3 weeks ago

• Iran Begins Second Cultural Revolution

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 550
  I wrote for Pajamas Media a few months ago that a leaked videotape of a secret high-level meeting chaired by Ahmadinejad showed that he was planning a second Cultural Revolution aimed at cleansing the universities of dissident elements. This is indeed happening. The New York Times reports on a few recent ...
  4 weeks ago

• Remembering Chinese scholar Yang Xianyi (1915 – 2009)

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  At the early morning hour, 6:45AM, on November 23, 2009, renowned Chinese scholar, translator, and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature, Yang Xianyi (楊憲益) died in Beijing at the age of 94. During his lifetime, he and his wife, Gladys Margaret Tayler (戴乃迭), translated more than 60 Chinese ...
  4 weeks ago

• China’s National Ballet celebrates 50 years on its toes

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 525
  [video] The Chinese National Ballet, now widely acclaimed for its technical prowess, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a major national tour that will include a performance from its heady early days in the 1960s, when it was noted outside the country mainly for its political messages. “The Red Detachment of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ft. Hood and The Cult of Indiscriminateness

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 754
  My old writing partner, the Leftist animation writer Steve Marmel, posited a question recently.  He was thrown by the concept of “fairness” in the news, arguing — rightly — that facts and truth, not “balance,” should be the news media’s objective. And it once was. All this changed with the ...
  5 weeks ago

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