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What does a legal case from the Cultural Revolution reveal about China today?

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we hear how Xi Jinping’s increased control over the telling of China’s modern history affects one family’s 50-year fight for justice

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IN 1966 MAO ZEDONG unleashed the Cultural Revolution, a deadly decade of purges and bloodletting. Wang Kangfu, a schoolmaster from Jiangxi province, was 24 when the Cultural Revolution began. Soon afterwards he was accused of committing a terrible crime—one he says he didn’t commit.

The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, examines the case of Wang Kangfu and meets his family to hear about their struggle for justice. Runtime: 41 min

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