#  Cultural Revolution comes to Allston 

 





April 22, 2014

 

 

*Harvard Gazette*  
By Jennifer Doody, Harvard Correspondent

When Peter K. Bol was in college, a revolution halfway around the world changed his life.

In 1966, Bol began to study modern China — the same year that the [Cultural Revolution](http://www.history.com/topics/cultural-revolution) occurred. “All of a sudden, China went from being a very interesting and promising place to a very awful place. A place where people killed one another, where there was a cult of personality,” said Bol, Harvard’s vice provost for advances in learning and the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, speaking at the [Harvard Allston Education Portal](http://edportal.harvard.edu/) (Ed Portal) earlier this month.

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