What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate

Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at

China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to assess its i

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both