Episode 11: ALL-AROUND CIVIL WAR (Apr-May 1967)

"The messier, the better!" The Red Guard movement begins to break down nationwide into brutal factional armed struggle. The People's Liberation Army is forced to take sides. Chairman Mao and his comrades help establish the Beijing Revolutionary Committee. The mass movements grow nationally and the Cultural Revolution spills out of Chinese borders and into the popular imagination of the people of the world with riots breaking out in Hong Kong.