Mao’s Cultural War: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Revisited
Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science
Published online on May 19, 2026
Abstract
Modern China, Ahead of Print.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a sweeping mass assault that shook the political foundations of China’s Leninist party-state. But why was it called a “cultural revolution”? What, precisely, was “cultural” about Mao’s last revolutionary ...
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a sweeping mass assault that shook the political foundations of China’s Leninist party-state. But why was it called a “cultural revolution”? What, precisely, was “cultural” about Mao’s last revolutionary ...