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Mao's handwritten draft of "Bombard the Headquarters" Bombard The Headquarters – My Big-Character Poster (Chinese: 炮 打 司令部——我的一张大字报; pinyin: Pào dǎ sīlìng bù——wǒ de yī zhāng dàzì bào) was a short document written by Chairman Mao Zedong on August 5, 1966, during the 11th plenary session of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, [1 ...
The Great Leap Forward also prompted a wave of the New Guohua Campaign in which the state commissioned landscape artists to paint new production projects; select paintings of the campaign were taught in schools, published widely as propaganda posters, exhibited in museums, and used as the backdrops of state events. [185]
Three Red Banners (Chinese: 三面红旗) was an ideological slogan in the late 1950s which called on the Chinese people to build a socialist state.The "Three Red Banners" also called the "Three Red Flags," consisted of the General Line for socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward and the people's communes.
During the Great Leap Forward, big-character posters were also used in rural villages to rectify the operation of People's Communes and to promote production. [62] Many news articles claimed that big-character posters had motivated farmers and contributed to an increase in production.
Although intended to increase China's economic output, the Great Leap Forward was instead a period of economic regression. The policies enacted during the campaign, coupled with the use of coercion and violence, resulted in the Great Chinese Famine and led to the deaths of 36 - 45 million. 36 to 45 million [12] 1958–1962: Four Pests Campaign
The propaganda posters offered no scientific explanation for why the campaign was necessary. Instead, they featured dramatic depictions of children heroically exterminating the pests, and hence playing their role in the Great Leap Forward. The propaganda served to frame the campaign as more than an effort to improve hygiene.
Mao left his successors a country in a deep, comprehensive crisis. After the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, China's economy stagnated, intellectual and cultural life was crushed by left-wing radicals, political culture was completely absent [56] [57] due to excessive public politicization and ideological chaos. The crippled ...
After the Great Leap Forward, China's leadership slowed the pace of industrialization. [ 210 ] : 3 It invested more on in China's coastal regions and focused on the production of consumer goods. [ 210 ] : 3 Preliminary drafts of the Third Five Year Plan contained no provision for developing large scale industry in China's interior.