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Rediscovering China's Cultural Revolution

Date:
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Time:
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
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Location Details:
Berdahl Auditorium in Stanley Hall (UC Berkeley campus)
Berkeley. CA

Few events in modern history are more deserving of rediscovery than China ’s Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. Few have so challenged traditional notions of what human society can be. Few have been as distorted and demonized.

This unique symposium, REDISCOVERING CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION, offers an opportunity to rediscover—or discover for the first time—what this “revolution within a revolution” in socialist China was really all about.

Hear from youth who went to the countryside to work and learn from the peasants...artists who set out to create revolutionary art....women who struggled against feudal tradition....people who look back at this period as some of the best years of their lives. And learn from scholars whose work brings to life a crucial and vital legacy of liberation.


Panelists include:

Dongping Han—Professor of History, Warren Wilson College ; author of The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village ; farmer and manager of a collective village factory during the Cultural Revolution.

Raymond Lotta—Set the Record Straight Project; Maoist political economist; writer for Revolution newspaper; editor Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism.

Robert Weil – Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute, author of Red Cat, White Cat: China and the Contradictions of “Market Socialism”
Added to the calendar on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 10:35AM
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