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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.
Some argued that, since the late 1980s, China has experienced "at first a fitful and then a nationwide revival in Mao Zedong", including aspects of the Cultural Revolution. [ 10 ] : 6–7 Maoist hold that the Cultural Revolution "cleansed" China from superstitions, religious dogma, and outdated traditions in a "modernist transformation" that ...
The Mao era focuses on Mao Zedong's social movements from the early 1950s on, including land reform, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Great Chinese Famine , one of the worst famines in human history, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] occurred during this era.
The mango cult (Chinese: 芒果崇拜; pinyin: Mángguǒ Chóngbài) was the veneration or worship of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On August 5, 1968, Mao Zedong gave a box of Sindhri mangoes, given to him by the Pakistani Foreign Minister Mian Arshad Hussain , to the Worker-Peasant Mao ...
Big changes in China have some worried a new version of Chairman Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution is underway. Here's everything you need to know.
The Criticize Lin (Biao), Criticize Confucius Campaign (simplified Chinese: 批林批孔运动; traditional Chinese: 批林批孔運動; pinyin: pī lín pī kǒng yùndòng; also called the Anti-Lin Biao, Anti-Confucius campaign) was a political and intellectual campaign started by Mao Zedong and his wife, Jiang Qing, the leader of the Gang of ...
Li Rui, who died in 2019 at the age of 101, held a number of important positions within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, including personal secretary to longtime leader Mao Zedong. In detailed ...
The notification formalized the decisions that had been reached in late April. It was the first major political declaration of the Cultural Revolution [3]: 117 and summarized Mao's justifications for the Cultural Revolution. [1]: 40 It emphasized the need to defeat bourgeois representatives in the party, government, and army. [4]: 145