![]() ![]() After the Cultural Revolution started in May 1966, her parents were both labeled as “counter-revolutionaries” because Wang’s father openly criticized the Cultural Revolution as unconstitutional. Both of her parents were college instructors. Wang was born in 1952 and grew up in Beijing. Unlike the Soviet Union’s organized and remote ‘Gulag Archipelago,’ the Chinese system of so-called “Cowsheds” were informal jails established at every workplace where not only millions of innocent victims were murdered but also poisoned the morality of the Chinese people.” “Unlike Stalin’s ‘show trials,’ the Chinese ‘Struggle Session’ did not even attempt to feign legal proceedings. In her paper titled “ Humanity Day,” published in October 2017, Wang wrote the following paragraph to describe how the CCP’s “class struggle” took place during the Cultural Revolution: At the high school she attended, besides the death of the vice principal, three teachers committed suicide because of political persecutions. Wang told The Epoch Times that through her own investigation, she identified more than 1,700 people who died because of political persecution in Beijing in 1966. The Red Guards were a student-led paramilitary social movement that was established during the Cultural Revolution by Mao’s followers. The report was later published in English in 2001 and in Japanese in 2017. Wang personally witnessed the crime herself. Her first report was about her high school vice principal, who was beaten to death by Red Guard students on Aug. Wang started writing investigative reports on victims of the Cultural Revolution in 1986. History shall be detailed stories of individuals,” Wang told The Epoch Times when explaining what motivated her to start collecting the victims’ stories. The Chinese words painted on the van say: “End the Chinese Communist Party regime, and build new constitutional democracy in China.” (Courtesy of Fang Zheng) This time, Wang’s website survived less than six months. Fang himself became a victim of the CCP’s brutality in 1989, when both of his legs were crushed by Chinese military tanks during the massacre at Tiananmen Square.īut not long after Wang received the CDEF award in June, Wang was told by her readers in China that they were no longer able to access the new link. “We gave Youqin Wang the special contribution award hoping to encourage more people to make efforts to investigate the details of the bloody crimes conducted by the Chinese Communist Party,” said Zheng Fang, chairman of the CDEF during a phone interview with The Epoch Times. As recognition for her efforts, Wang received this year’s special award from the Chinese Democratic Education Foundation (CDEF), a California-based nonprofit organization with a mission to promote democracy in China. In January of this year, Wang started a new website, after which Wang received lots of feedback from her readers living in China, praising her new site. The cover page of professor Wang Youqin’s book “Victims of the Cultural Revolution.” (Courtesy of Wang Youqin) However, the stories Wang published garnered much attention from the American media outside China. The original website was launched in October 2000, but only survived for 17 months, before it was censored by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) internet police. Currently, the website has detailed stories of more than 1,000 victims. The stories Wang put online were, one by one, verified with details, and recorded by herself. Since 2000, she has maintained an online space named “Chinese Holocaust Memorial - Memorial for Victims of The Chinese Cultural Revolution.” The website publishes the personal stories of victims of the Cultural Revolution. Wang Youqin is a professor teaching the Chinese language at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Historians have estimated that the movement caused a death toll of millions in China before it ended with the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976. The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a communist sociopolitical movement that took place in China between 19. This was the second time the website was blocked by the regime. The Chinese communist regime recently blocked a memorial website for victims of the Cultural Revolution, a small online platform personally maintained by a Chicago University professor. ![]()
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