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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 air in 1954 was thick with tension, a palpable humidity clinging to the sweltering days and the anxious nights. In the heart of Asia, a geopolitical drama was unfolding, one that would pit the newly formed People’s Republic of China against the United States in a series of confrontations that brought the world precariously … 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