{"id":8812,"date":"2022-01-16T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=197413"},"modified":"2022-01-16T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:59:06","slug":"maos-cultural-revolution-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/maos-cultural-revolution-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\" font-weight:=\"\">In the latest episode in our series on history\u2019s biggest topics, Professor Rana Mitter answers your questions about one of the defining events of modern Chinese history. 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