Mao Zedong

The Life of a Slogan: Maoism, Gender, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

A discussion by professor Emily Honig on the impact of the Cultural Revolution on state feminism in China.

Legal Education in Republican and Maoist China

Part of the Long Institute Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business, and Society, Glenn D. Tiffert provides an overview of modern legal education in China.

The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk by Guobin Yang. The first part of the book offers a new explanation of factional violence in the Red Guard movement and the second part of the book chronicles the de-sacralization of that revolutionary culture throughout the 1970s and the rise of a new wave of protest that inaugurated the democratic movements of the reform era.

Screening: To Live

Zhang Yimou's film is presneted in conjunction with the Monterey Park Art+Film Lab presented by LACMA

Felix Wemheur, "Food Politics and Hunger in Maoist China (1953-1963)"

The Fairbank Center hosts Yomi Braester as he examines recent visual media practices, from traditional painting scrolls to state-of-the-art digital screens, and shows their collusion in the commodification of Chinaʼs cityscapes.

Nicholas Khoo, Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance (1964-1991)

The Sigur Center hosts a discussion of China's Cold War alliances and policies from 1962 to 1991

Creating and Discarding Symbols: The Case of Mao Zedong’s Golden Mangoes

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Creating and Discarding Symbols: The Case of Mao Zedong's Golden Mangoes" by Alfreda Murck Monday, September 22, 2014, 4:00pm to 5:30pm.

Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China" by Nicholas Lardy on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 12:30pm to 1:50pm.

Organized Knowledge and State Socialism, 1949-1978

UC Berkeley presents a workshop investigating knowledge production during the Maoist period (1949-1978) of the People's Republic of China.

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