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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Ten Years of Turmoil 1966-76 Mass movement to arrest capitalist trend. Cultural Revolution swept away 4 OLDS. Old customs Old culture Old habits Old ideas. Destroying The 4 Olds…. Eroded family structure Families divided to work in countryside
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Ten Years of Turmoil 1966-76 Mass movement to arrest capitalist trend Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Cultural Revolution swept away 4 OLDS Old customs Old culture Old habits Old ideas Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Destroying The 4 Olds… Eroded family structure Families divided to work in countryside Attempted to wipe out Confucian thought Silenced intellectuals Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Making Sense of Chaos • Causes of the Cultural Revolution • Phases of the Cultural Revolution • Experiences of the Cultural Revolution • Impact of the Cultural Revolution Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Causes of the Cultural Revolution • Communist Party Struggle • Mao vs. Pragmatists • The Great Leap Forward & Great Famine Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
The Great Leap Forward • 1959 Steel production • famine “More, Faster, Better” Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
China’s Population by Age 1990 Census Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Impact of China’s Famine on World Population Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Mao’s Comeback Coalition • People’s Liberation Army • Radical Intellectuals • Youth who became Red Guards • Protect forward progression of the Chinese Socialist movement against “evil forces” such as imperialism and corruption Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Phases of the Cultural Revolution 1966-1969: Radical Revolution • 1969-1971: chaos control • 1971-1976: disillusionment & doubt Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
The PLA reading Mao’s Little Red Book Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Youth: Red Guards Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
The Mao CultRevering Mao in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Mao Cult Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Destroy the Four Olds Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Struggle Sessions Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Phase 2: Chaos Control 1969-1971 Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Sent-Down Youth Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Sent down youth • Sent to countryside to learn from peasants • Barefoot doctors • Education stopped, schools closed • Teachers persecuted Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Phase 3: Disillusionment and Doubt 1971-1976 Millions perished Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Impact of Cultural Revolution • Generation of educated lost • Many professors & teachers killed or aged beyond active years • Millions died in prison or due to persecution Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Impact continued • Families scattered or shattered • Children had turned on parents • Centuries of historical artifacts destroyed • Books burned Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Impact continued • Damage to environment • Deforestation • Mismanaged mining • Lost 10 years of economic development • Impoverished China Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Death of Mao September 9, 1976 Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Deng XiaopingRise to Power 1978 • “to be rich is glorious” • “It doesn’t matter what color the cat is so long as it catches mice” Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Web Sites with Cultural Revolution Images and Information • http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/ • http://www.morningsun.org/ Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU
Films & Documentariesportraying the Cultural Revolution FILMS • To Live • Farwell my Concubine • The Last Emperor DOCUMENTARIES • China: A Century of Revolution • Anything by Carma Hinton and Long Bow, Inc. Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU