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Cultural Revolution China: 1966–1976
China · 1966–1976 · exact time + place
Experience the intense and tumultuous decade of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution — radical political and social change, widespread purges, destroyed heritage, and profound societal upheaval. The button below opens StoryTerra with both China and 1966–1976 already set.
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of…
Under the Hawthorn Tree
The daughter of a right-winger schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class…
In the Heat of the Sun
The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun nicknamed Monkey a teenage boy. Monkey and his friends are free to roam the streets of Beijing day and night…
Aftershock
The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240000 people.
Wolf Totem
In 1969 a young Beijing student Chen Zhen is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding…
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a…
Hibiscus Town
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
During the Cultural Revolution two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
11 Flowers
A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugitive and struggles to understand the adult world.
Life and Death in Shanghai
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang…
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