“Mao’s Horrific Cultural Revolution: A Survivor’s Story” with Li Schoolland

AIER's Bastiat Society program in Washington, DC hosted a virtual event with Li Schoolland, a survivor of Mao Zedong’s horrific cultural revolution in China during the 1960s, moderated by Washington, DC chapter director Steve Dewey.

Mao Zedong established a new communist government in China in 1949, the People’s Republic of China. During Mao’s authoritarian reign from 1949 until his death in 1976, tens of millions of Chinese lives were destroyed in order to meet Mao’s economic goals and his vision of a communist utopia expressed with his Cultural Revolution. It has been estimated that over 50 million Chinese people may have been killed as a result of Mao’s brutal rule. Li Schoolland, born in 1958 in Tianjin, China, survived the first 26 years of her life under China’s Communist Party state before leaving to live in the United States in 1984. As a survivor of Mao’s horrific communist regime, Li chose to dedicate the rest of her life to telling her personal story about life in a communist state and warning the rest of the world about the evils of communism.