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Here are some of the best things to do in San Diego County this weekend, including Mardi Gras, Black History Month events, Mardi Gras, Museum Month, theater, concerts and more.

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory shows how Xi Jinping’s China is erasing the violence and tyranny of Mao’s purges from history.

<strong>The long read</strong>: It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness?

Son of the Revolution is actually three stories in one—first, a graphic I-was-there account of what it was like to grow up during the Cultural Revolution; second, a cliffhanger love story with a happy ending; and third, a poignant analysis of how Chinese people have tried and failed, and tried again, to break out of their past.

Tensions rise again as lockdowns grind on and the city’s population tire of strict zero-Covid policy

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang’s pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for

An on-the-ground report from the early days of the Wuhan lockdown.

Scientific intolerance and problematic models mean that we risk entering an annual cycle of lockdowns

Fifty years ago this May 16, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a chaotic, terrifying, and often deadly decade-long campaign to “purify” C.C.P. ideology and reassert his political dominance. Despite its profound and traumatic impact on Chinese society, the legacy of the Cultural Revolution is seldom formally addressed