Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution spread bloodshed and turmoil across China, the Communist-ruled country is driving firmly down the capitalist road, but Mao Zedong’s legacy remains — like the embalmed leader himself — far from buried. No official commemorations will mark the anniversary of the May 16, 1966 declaration of what historian Simon Leys … Continue reading Mao’s influence lingers 50 years after China’s Cultural Revolution