Ying Chang Compestine autographs her new book “Growing Up under a Red Flag; A memoir of surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution” at Linden Tree Books in Los Altos, Calif., on Saturday, May ...

Linda Jaivin’s epic tale of China’s Cultural Revolution brings its players to life – and illustrates the massive scale of its ...

Few books have shaped history like Mao’s Little Red Book—read by hundreds of millions, it became a symbol of revolution, ideology, and power. But was it propaganda or a guide to a new world?

“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles sang in 1968, near the height of the cultural revolution in the U.S., when sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and ...

Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution spread bloodshed and turmoil across China, the Communist-ruled country is driving firmly down the capitalist road, but Mao Zedong's legacy remains -- like ...

Mao's Cultural Revolution turned his nation red with blood, with up to 20 million dead. (Getty Images) Americans have found themselves strangers in their own country.

Lafayette author Ying Chang Compestine understands that China’s Cultural Revolution might not be an obvious topic for an illustrated children’s book.