The diaries of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution may show the '10-year catastrophe' in a new light, writes SHAN WINDSCRIPT. Source Version, The origins of the cultural revolution:Roderick MacFarquhar. MacFarquhar, Roderick London: Published for the Royal Institute of International A blog of the History and Public Policy Program The Swiss Witnesses to China's Cultural Revolution. June 19, 2017. Ariane Kn