Federico Pachetti is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at the University of Hong Kong. His doctoral dissertation explores China’s relations with the United States from 1979 until 1992. Pachetti is interested in the history and foreign relations of the P.R.C., U.S. foreign policy, the global economic history of the 20th century, and contemporary international relations.
Last Updated: April 19, 2016
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04.19.16
Fifty Years Later, How Is the Cultural Revolution Still Present in Life in China?
Fifty years ago this May 16, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a chaotic, terrifying, and often deadly decade-long campaign to “purify” C.C.P. ideology and reassert his political dominance...