In 1966, with the words ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

By the time he died ten years later, millions had perished, China’s cultural heritage was in ruins, its economic state was perilous, its institutions of government were damaged and its society was bitterly divided.

Author and China watcher Linda Jaivin talks to award-winning author Lech Blaine about the Cultural Revolution, and Bombard the Headquarters! published by Black Inc.

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