1966-76 During Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution, thousands of people died in political struggles and even pitched battles between enemy factions. The victims included Liu Shaoqi, then China’s head of state.
China The cultural revolution is not mentioned at “The Road to Rejuvenation”, the exhibit at China’s national museum.
Neither are other self-inflicted wounds such as the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4 1989. And in a more recent example of the exhibition’s deliberate omissions, a picture of the Communist party’s 17th Politburo Standing Committee (2007-12) has been cropped to cut out Zhou Yongkang, the most senior party member to be purged during President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.