Live: The Cultural Revolution at 50

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Fifty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, inaugurating a decade of political turmoil with his calls for young people to "bombard the headquarters." In this special live edition of our podcast recorded at The Bookworm Literary Festival in March, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser welcome Melinda Liu, the longtime China bureau chief of Newsweek for a discussion of the 50th anniversary of this definitive event. Melinda shares stories about her brother, who remained in China after the civil war and experienced it firsthand. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special live edition of the Cynica podcast right here at the Bookworm Literary Festival in Beijing.
0:20.5	I'm Kaiser Gwar, joined, of course, by David Bozer, academic director of the CET program in Beijing,
0:26.4	who comes this week without his fan club.
0:28.8	Where's your fan club, David?
0:31.0	Oh, we got some fan club.
0:32.2	Oh, yeah, couldn't get it.
0:33.2	Last year they had signs.
0:34.1	They weren't read enough.
0:35.5	Two experts.
0:36.7	Oh, yeah, They kicked them out.
0:38.3	And we're also really delighted to be joined this week by Melinda Liu, who's one of the longest certain foreign correspondents here in Beijing.
0:44.6	She has been, she opened the Newsweek Bureau here in Beijing in 1980.
0:49.2	Wow.
0:50.1	1980.
0:51.2	Before most of you were born.
0:52.8	Before most of you were born. And served as bureau chief from 1998 again until this very day, to this very day.
1:01.0	Melinda has an incredible rich number of stories that she's going to share with you.
1:06.0	She came here just four years after the formal end of the Cultural Revolution.
1:10.0	David, your first trip to China was?
1:12.4	The Qing Dynasty.
1:15.5	And I was here for the first time in 1981.
1:18.1	Right, right, right, right.
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