Bombard the Headquarters!: Linda Jaivin Author Talk

Join the PHA NSW & ACT and Linda Jaivin, author of Bombard the Headquarters!: The Cultural Revolution in China for this timely presentation:

Bombard the Headquarters! From Mao to Musk

Almost six decades before the newly elected US president Donald Trump and his then closest-comrade-in-arms Elon Musk were planning their attack on America’s ‘deep state’, Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, called on his comrades to ‘bombard the headquarters’. Bureaucrats were a common enemy for both leaders, who perceived them as impediments to their very different, but equally urgent and sweeping revolutionary visions. China’s Cultural Revolution was enormously destructive for China’s education system and cultural institutions, its economy and its social cohesion. It was horrifically violent as well, with nearly two million people beaten, tortured or otherwise driven to their deaths, and millions more left with life-changing injuries. Its memory still shadows China. What lessons does this traumatic period offer the world today?