where history comes alive
The year is 1966. The People’s Republic of China, still in its relative infancy, was about to be plunged into a decade of unprecedented social and political upheaval. This was the dawn of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a movement initiated by Mao Zedong, the very architect of the new China. Mao, the Chairman, saw … Read more
The year is 1966. The air in China crackles with a feverish energy, a potent cocktail of revolutionary zeal and escalating paranoia. Red Guards, young and fiercely devoted, march through the streets, their eyes ablaze with a singular purpose: to purge the remnants of the old world and usher in a new era of Maoist … Read more
The 1920s. The very name conjures images of flappers with bobbed hair, jazz music spilling from smoky speakeasies, and a general air of rebellious optimism. But beneath the surface of this glittering decade lay a complex tapestry of profound economic shifts, vibrant cultural explosions, and seismic social transformations that forever reshaped America. It was an … Read more
The air in Beijing, September 1966, crackled not with the crispness of autumn, but with a feverish revolutionary zeal. Red Guards, their arms adorned with crimson armbands, marched with an almost hypnotic fervor, their voices chanting slogans that promised a radical rebirth of China. Amidst this storm, a young art student named Li Wei found … Read more