Mao Zedong’s Policies Devastated China During the Cultural Revolution

In Mao Zedong’s Policies Devastated China During the Cultural Revolution, host Andrew Marr explains reveals that millions of people were targeted, killed, or “re-educated” during this time. One resistor, Deng Xiaoping, was exiled and his son tortured and disabled under Mao. They returned to China later to rise to power and merge capitalism and communism to reshape China’s future. This video is excerpted from BBC’s A History of the World, a story of human history that uses reenactments, modern footage, and storytelling to explain history’s greatest achievements.