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  • Westernized culture banned
  • Destroyed everything pre-revolution
  • New art glorified China and its people

Change in Culture

  • Worked to destroy the Four Olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Ideas, Old Habits
  • Replaced with the Four News

The Revolution Begins!

  • Launched in August 1966 @ a meeting of the Plenum of the Central Committee
  • May 16, 1966 - Chinese Communist Party (CCP) notice announces the start of the revolution

The Great Proletarian

Cultural Revolution

  • increasing privileged middle class
  • Mao's waning power
  • Economic Failure
  • Launched by Mao
  • Aimed to modernize agrarian economy through rapid industrialization
  • Caused the Great Chinese Famine

Causes

  • "Great Leap Forward" (1958-1963)

When & Where

  • 1966-1976
  • People's Republic of China

Red Guards

  • hong wei bing militants
  • paramilitary groups formed by students
  • supported reorganization in Communist party
  • radical teenage activists

The End

  • Sept. 9, 1976 - Mao Zedong dies signaling the near end of the Cultural Revolution
  • Oct. 6, 1976 - Arrest of the Gang of Four marks the end
  • Deng Xiaoping becomes new leader
  • Extreme policies replaced
  • China heads towards capitalism and greater economic freedom
  • Stronger links to outside world
  • price of cotton fabrics and clothes increased

Effect on

Economy

  • economy was severely setback
  • industrial production dropped
  • price of rice increased

What happened?

  • Intellectuals and the elderly are attacked
  • Capitalists are terrorized
  • Schools are shut down
  • The Little Red Book - book of Mao's quotations - is distributed
  • Those in opposition to Mao are removed from the ruling party
  • Purify China
  • Destroy "the Four Olds"
  • Reassert Mao's authority
  • Revive the revolutionary spirit
  • Purge the Communist party
  • Remove bourgeois influence

What was it?

It was a social-political movement that aimed to ...

Important Figures

Gang of Four

Members:

  • Jiang Qing - Mao's fourth wife,
  • Zhang Chunqiao - Shanghai Proganda Department Official
  • Yao Wenyuan - Literary critic and politician
  • Wang Hongwen - Chinese labor activist and politician
  • Held the power in the Communist party
  • Controlled the Cultural Revolution
  • Tried for Treason

Lin Biao

  • Chinese Communist military leader
  • Minister of National Defense
  • Vice Chairman and Vice Premier
  • designated Mao's successor
  • Survived the Cultural Revolution by being passive
  • Supported the Red Guards

Effect on Education

  • Mao encouraged students to turn against teachers
  • Schools shut down by Red Guards
  • Graduates sent to the countryside to be re-educated by farmers and peasants
  • 16 million students sent to work on farmland
  • Those ages 15-25 during this period referred to as the "lost generation"

Mao Zedong

  • Mao Tse-tung
  • Chairman Mao
  • Founder of the People's Republic of China
  • Chinese Communist revolutionary
  • A Founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
  • launched the "Great Leap Forward"
  • Modernized China
  • anti-Imperialist
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