In May 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed a decade-long wave of mass upheaval that convulsed China, leaving as many as 1.5 million people dead and banishing millions more to the countryside.
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Young pioneers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, 1965. MARC RIBOUD/MAGNUM PHOTOS
Luo Zicheng, the head of a work group designated by a provincial Communist Party committee, was accused by the staff of the Heilongjiang Daily of following ‘the capitalist line’ and forced to wear a dunce cap listing his alleged crimes, Harbin, Aug. 25, 1966. LI ZHENSHENG/CONTACT PRESS IMAGES