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A Red Guard holding up the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, with "revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified" written on a flag next to him, 1967. Huang claimed that the Cultural Revolution had massive effects on Chinese society because of the extensive use of political slogans. [159]
One of the most successful local leaders was Mao Zedong, who turned the Jiangxi Soviet into a "state within a state". [1] In 1935, the Communists were handed a major military defeat, and the survivors made the Long March to a new base in northwest China. During the Long March, Mao rose from a regional leader to undisputed leader of the entire CCP.
On May 16, 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in mainland, China. [10] On August 5, Bian Zhongyun, the first vice principal of the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, was beaten to death by a group of Red Guards—mostly her students—and became the first education worker in Beijing killed by the Red ...
During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), struggle sessions were widely conducted by Red Guards and various rebel groups across mainland China. [4] [5] [9] [10] Though there was no specific definition for the "targets of struggle", they included the Five Black Categories and anyone else who could be deemed an enemy of Mao Zedong Thought ...
There has never been an official "Complete Works of Mao Zedong". [326] Mao is the attributed author of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, known in the West as the "Little Red Book" and in Cultural Revolution China as the "Red Treasure Book" (紅寶書).
Revolution is not a dinner party, [2] or making revolution is not inviting people over for dinner, [3] is a phrase coined by Mao Zedong. [4] It is taken from Mao's essay titled Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan written in 1927 during the Land Revolution. [5] It means that a revolution should not be gentle and soft, but ...
It was the first major political declaration of the Cultural Revolution [3]: 117 and summarized Mao's justifications for the Cultural Revolution. [ 1 ] : 40 By voiding the February Outline and dissolving the Group of Five, the 16 May Notification removed the leadership of the party's cultural apparatus and reversed its last political machination.
Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in May 1966. In January 1967, the January Storm in Shanghai marked the beginning of power-seizure movement, which then spread to other areas of China. [4] [6] [7] [3] Shanghai's was the first provincial level government overthrown. [8] Within days, Mao expressed his approval. [8]