Guobin Yang's Blog

May 15, 2016 Gerry Shih, Maoists Still a Force 50 Years after the Cultural Revolution May 15, 2016 Guobin Yang,  How the Chinese Cultural Revolution Came to an End May 14, 2016 Chris Buckley, Fifty Years after the Cultural Revolution, a Son Awaits Answers on His Father's Death May 11, 2016 Jeffrey Wasserstrom, How Will China Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution ? May 10, 2016 Ian Johnson, Q.&A.: Jeremy Brown on the Cultural Revolution at the Grassroots May 6, 2016 Evan Osnos, The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, 50 Years Later May 3, 2016 Helen Gao, Q.&A.: Roderick MacFarquhar on the Cultural Revolution and China Today April 29, 2016 Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China's Cultural Revolution  (a review of two books) April 19, 2016 A ChinaFile Conversation: Fifty Years Later, How Is the Cultural Revolution Still Present in Life in China? April 4, 2016 Chris Buckley, Q.&A.: Xujun Eberlein on the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution...

Trying to Make Sense of China's Cultural Revolution (interview on NPR's Here and Now, May 13, 2016)  Fifty Years Later, How Is the Cultural Revolution Still Present in Life in China?  (A ChinaFile converation, April 19 2016)

This book took a long time to write. I like telling friends I've been withholding it for the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Now that the anniversary is this month, the book is just out. Here is the  link  to the Amazon book site.

" China's Contested Internet: Historical Struggle and Uncertain Future " -- link to an essay I wrote in March 2016 for  The Futures We Want .