文革50年祭，之七

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The Cultural Revolution at 50

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.

May 13, 2016 11:13 a.m. ET

People held up Mao’s portrait during a parade, Beijing, circa 1970.
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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
At a mass rally in northeastern China, party secretary Wang Yilun and Li Xia, the wife of another top official, were denounced, their faces and clothes splattered with ink, and their crimes spelled out in placards hung around their necks, Harbin, Aug. 29, 1966. LI ZHENSHENG/CONTACT PRESS IMAGES
At a rally led by the Red Guards (a Maoist paramilitary student movement), stocks, securities certificates and savings-deposit books confiscated during home searches were burned, Harbin, Sept. 19, 1966. LI ZHENSHENG/CONTACT PRESS IMAGES
Educated youth from China’s cities sent to live in rural areas worked to reclaim wasteland in Jilin province, 1968. VCG/GETTY IMAGES
Chinese soldiers read from Mao’s Little Red Book, 1969.POPPERFOTO/GETTY IMAGES
People held up Mao’s portrait during a parade, Beijing, circa 1970.VCG/GETTY IMAGES