About the book: 1978 / Like a typhoon of enormous destructive power, the "cultural revolution" swept over China, leaving behind the destroyed Communist Party and bodies of people's power, plunging devastation and decline of the economic and cultural life of the country. The author of the book "Typhoon", a Bulgarian diplomat, journalist, using personal observations, as well as extensive documentary material, analyzes the events of the "cultural revolution", exposing the unprecedented campaign of chauvinism and ardent anti-Sovietism unleashed by the Maoists.