This photo taken on May 8, 2016 shows a family in their house with a portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong in the old town of Wuxuan, in south China’s Guangxi province.
Launched by Mao in 1966 to topple his political enemies after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution saw a decade of violence and destruction nationwide as party-led class conflict devolved into social chaos. Some of the worst excesses happened in Wuxuan, in the far southern region of Guangxi, where the hearts, livers and genitals of victims were cut out and fed to revellers. / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER / TO GO WITH China-politics-Cultural-history-rights-censorship,FOCUS by Benjamin CARLSON