The Chinese Cultural Revolution After 50 Years
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: September 12, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
This year marks half a century since the unleashing of the so-called Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. In its time the radical campaign, today officially dubbed the “10 years of chaos” (1966–1976) in China itself, spoke to millions of participants and had a great many ideological fellow travellers in the West and the developing world. Its impact and influence are still apparent to this day. Sinologists Olga Lomová and Martin Hála will discuss the essence and legacy of this mass campaign.
Evening organised in cooperation with Sinopsis, a project of the Institute of Far East Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and the association AcaMedia.