Yesterday, on the 47th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution’s official starting date, a few apologies made by individuals who have made mistakes during that 10 years of madness went viral online, and ignited discussions of who should be responsible for all the chaos.

While most journalists, both inside and outside of China, are busying making sense of what Li Keqiang said during his first press conference as the world’s second biggest economy’s new premier, what happened after the press conference is equally telling about China as a society.

After the 18th National Party Congress, China saw a sudden surge in anti-corruption investigations, most of which were first exposed by netizens online. While many are cheering for the power of the Web, others call for caution, comparing online anti-corruption to the Culture Revolution.

Chinee netizens were impressed by Xi’s charisma and saw new hope for China from a picture snapped by a netizen during Xi’s Deng-Xiaoping-style, traffic-control-free “southern trip” to Shenzhen

Back to 1942, a new Feng Xiaogang production depicting a less-known famine back in the year of 1942 during war-time China, has the whole nation talking. While watching a famine in 1942 on screen, people are thinking about the Great Famine of Mao in minds. Not all famines are equal in China. While some are made into movies, some others left in the darkness.

This year, popular Chinese writer Mo Yan has been reported to be in top places for the Nobel Prize for Literature, but many Chinese netizens are saying: “He doesn’t deserve it.”

The similarities between the life stories of Bo Xila, China’s disgraced politician, and Mao, who are still seen as the country’s safeguard now, revealed some very sad facts about China’s reality after over 30 years of opening up and reform.

This weekend, unrest can be felt in the air all over China. This weekend, chanting of “Long live Chairman Mao” once again can be heard all over China. This weekend, pictures with Mao started to be censored on Weibo.

Chinese netizens to the great grandson of Chiang Kai-shek : “If your great grandfather [Chiang Kai-shek] had worked harder, now we could open Twitter accounts together.”

Mao Xingyu, often seen as a joke among Chinese netizens, was given the title of “the most dedicated representative at NPC.” He not only listened but also took notes in the middle of sleeping representatives and he filed an anti-corruption proposal.