That’s why a “symphonic concert of socialist classic songs” staged earlier this month has provoked widespread outrage and left Communist Party officials distinctly red-faced. "The performance sent a clear signal that a group of people want the Cultural Revolution back," she said in an interview with Phoenix News website ifeng.com. A small museum commemorating the Cultural Revolution in the southern Chinese city of Shantou was also shut down earlier this month, according to Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution, a period of almost unimaginable chaos, cruelty and violence -- but you would barely know it if you confined yourself to reading Chinese media. The revolutionary masses can't do without the Communist Party.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2016 03:18 UTC