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The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese socialism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.
On 26 June 1981, the Sixth Plenum of the CCP's Eleventh Central Committee accepted the resignation of Hua Guofeng as chairman. [5]: 444 The next day, on 27 June, the Sixth Plenum of the Central Committee unanimously adopted the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China.
Preceded by the lengthy 8th Congress, the Congress was held at the height of the Cultural Revolution, and is considered to be a pivotal event. The Congress formally ratified the political purge of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, and elevated Mao's radical allies to power. The Congress also elected the 9th Central Committee of the CCP.
Gao Mobo, writing in The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution, argues that the movement benefited millions of Chinese citizens, particularly agricultural and industrial workers, [7]: 1 and sees it as egalitarian and genuinely populist, citing continued Maoist nostalgia today as remnants of its positive legacy.
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese socialism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.
[24] The Chinese government's condemnation of the Cultural Revolution culminated in the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, adopted by the sixth plenary session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. This stated that "Comrade Mao Zedong was ...
The Socialist Education Movement is regarded as the precursor of the Cultural Revolution. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Mao became frustrated with resistance to the Socialist Education Movement and the experience further developed his view that the relationship between cadres and the people needed to be improved.
The book, Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution, was originally published in 2011 by the Cambridge University Press. [1] By studying over 1,500 official county gazetteers as well as other unpublished investigative reports and his own interviews with villagers, Su Yang (based in UC Irvine [6]) systematically recorded and analyzed in his book the collective killings ...