Investigation
The Cultural Revolution
Six articles and case files reconstruct decision, implementation, numerical disputes, and institutional legacy of The Cultural Revolution.
Articles
6- The Cultural Revolution: Mass Rebellion, State Reconstruction, and Political PersecutionIntegrating central documents, Red Guards, factional conflict, military intervention, purges, and long-term legacies.
- Cultural Revolution Decision Timeline: From the May 16 Circular to the Fall of the Gang of FourOrdering central documents, mass movements, and institutional reconstruction from 1965 to 1976.
- Red Guards, Rebel Organizations, and Political AuthorizationAnalyzing how signals from the top bypassed regular organization and activated youth and mass factions.
- Revolutionary Committees, Military Support, and State ReconstructionTracing how the military and revolutionary committees restored organizational control after mass power seizures.
- Estimating Death and Persecution during the Cultural RevolutionComparing gazetteers, internal investigations, local archives, and victim definitions.
- Rehabilitation, Redress, and Memory Management after the Cultural RevolutionAnalyzing rehabilitation, local inquiry, limited accountability, and public narrative.
Cases
3- Red August School Violence: Political Identity in Everyday PersecutionHow political classification, leadership signals, and Red Guard organization turned teachers and students into targets in Beijing schools in 1966.
- Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution: Factional War, Collective Killing, and RedressAn event-timeline and evidence-status reconstruction of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution: Factional War, Collective Killing, and Redress.
- Cultural Revolution Memory: Rehabilitation, Publishing, and Limited Public DiscussionAn event-timeline and evidence-status reconstruction of Cultural Revolution Memory: Rehabilitation, Publishing, and Limited Public Discussion.