Mental illness used to be very common during the Mao era, when prisoners had to spend two hours each evening being indoctrinated.

This was a reference to a key document that for nearly two decades has set the boundaries for scholarship on the Mao era.

During the Mao era (1949-1976) divorce was rare, but in the reform era, it has become easier and more commonplace.

As the city emerged from the Mao era, urban planning in Beijing moved in a new direction.

The last large-scale celebration during the Mao era was in 1969.

But there is no nostalgia in their work for the Mao era.

To make this policy work, many of the assumptions of the Mao era were abandoned.

Divorce, once seen as a rare act during the Mao era(1949-1976), has become more common with rates continuing to increase today.

It is no longer the isolated, peasant-based economy of the Mao era.

Others will stay, year after degrading year, exactly as they did in the Mao era.