Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China (Linda Jaivin, Black Inc)

Chairman Mao’s decade of terror is the subject of Bombard the Headquarters!, Australian sinologist Linda Jaivin’s excellent primer on China’s Cultural Revolution. In 1966, Peking University’s Nie Yuanzi created a bold, ink-painted poster denouncing the sinister forces threatening the Chinese People’s Republic. Mao echoed Yuanzi’s daziboa with his own call...