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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 . In May 1966, with the help of the Cultural Revolution Group , Mao launched the Revolution and said that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government ...
1966–1976: Cultural Revolution: 无产阶级文化大革命 (or 文化大革命/文革) The Cultural Revolution, formally called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a social-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976.
February 17 — Chen Shutong, politician, scholar and administrator who served in governments of the Qing dynasty, Republic of China and the People's Republic of China (b. 1876) March 22 — Ai Siqi, philosopher and author (b. 1910) May 18 — Deng Tuo, poet, intellectual and journalist (b. 1912) May 23 Demchugdongrub, Mongol prince (b. 1902)
The time period in China from the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 until the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is often known as Dengist China.In September 1976, after CCP Chairman Mao Zedong's death, the People's Republic of China was left with no central authority figure, either symbolically or administratively. [1]
During the ten years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), the People's Publishing House published 870 different editions of Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung (Volumes 1–4), with a total of 325 million paperbacks and 2.55 million hardcover copies of the Chinese editions created. The Selected Works were also translated into a 14 different ...
China's economy in 1976 was three times its 1949 size (but the size of the Chinese economy in 1949 was one-tenth of the size of the economy in 1936), and whilst Mao-era China acquired some of the attributes of a superpower such as: nuclear weapons and a space programme; the nation was still quite poor and backwards compared to the Soviet Union ...
China joined a number of international economic organizations, becoming a member of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the Multi-Fiber Agreement. China became an observer of GATT in 1982 and formally applied to participate as a full member in July 1986.
Republic of China (Mainland China) 1912 Sun Yat-sen: Yuan Shikai: ... 1966 1967 1968 Soong Ching-ling ... 1976 1977 1978 Chiang Ching-kuo: 1979 1980