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Big-character posters (Chinese: 大字报; lit. 'big-character reports') are handwritten posters displaying large Chinese characters, usually mounted on walls in public spaces such as universities, factories, government departments, and sometimes directly on the streets. They were used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication.
The first phase of the campaign began after the 1st Plenary Session of the 10th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, in 1973. Following this session, Mao encouraged public discussions focused on criticizing Confucius and Confucianism, and on interpreting aspects of historical Chinese society within a Maoist theoretical perspective.
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] and published in the Communist Party's official ...
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a roundtable on Cuba last week at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Hialeah Gardens. Communist regime in Cuba is not ‘accidentally’ authoritarian; it is ...
What lies beyond remains largely a mystery, though the U.S. government has long suspected that China runs an intelligence gathering operation in this village that once hid Soviet nuclear warheads.
Propaganda in China is used by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and historically by the Kuomintang (KMT), to sway domestic and international opinion in favor of its policies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Domestically, this includes censorship of proscribed views and an active promotion of views that favor the government.
[1] Although both Cuba and China are ruled by a communist party, they were on different sides during the Cold War, with Cuba being an ally of the Soviet Union, which China usually opposed following the Sino-Soviet Split. China and Cuba experience good mutual relations, including through being members of the Belt and Road Initiative. China has ...
Cuba remained an atheist state until 1992, when the government amended the constitution and it became secular. Pope John Paul II made history in 1998 as the first pope to ever visit the island.