| Clip Of Q&A with Tania Branigan

Video Clip: Basic Facts

Description

"Guardian" newspaper editorial writer and former China correspondent Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory," details some basic facts about China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), during which millions of Chinese were killed and tens of millions were persecuted by the Chinese government for being enemies of the state.

5 minutes

Keywords

  • Chinese Civil War (1927-49)
  • Collectivize
  • Commune
  • Communist
  • Famine
  • Hubris
  • Imperial
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Kuomintang
  • Mao Zedong
  • Maoism
  • Marxism
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Opium Wars (1839-60)
  • Peasantry
  • Pragmatist
  • Proletariat
  • Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung
  • Soviet Union
  • Utopia
  • World War Two (1939-45)