Benefits Of The Cultural Revolution

In 1966, Mao launched the ‘Cultural Revolution’ in order to reassert his authority over China and the CCP, but also ensure that China would not revert back into capitalism and cement the revolution so as not to make the same revisionist mistakes that Mao had seen in the USSR.

The roles available required long hours and supplied little pay. The poverty level became very excessive and each capable member of the family was required to work in order keep the family above deprivation. Families migrated from the rural farm areas to the newly industrialized, crowded towns on the lookout for work opportunities. in the course of this revolution, children became one of the groups that had been extensively affected due to the fact they were referred to as to workers within the factories. A family could no longer be capable of earning enough itself if the children weren 't employed. This caused the excessive rise of child labour in factories. Children worked long hours on their family’s farms when they were living in the rural areas but in the cities the children worked extensively hard for very long hours for larger companies

4.1 Cultural Revolution gained public supports though some scholars described it as “Ten-year disaster”. It did really badly affected people’s livelihood at that time. Indeed, it has aroused many scholars’ interest to study the general public’s enthusiasm for this massive movement. In order to transform China into a pure communist state, massive propaganda work has implemented to promote Chinese political philosophy. During the “First Five Year Plan”, the “Campaign on Education of Illiteracy” was launched to infused people with communist ideology. People who are the lower class of society like peasants, students and workers were the most targeted group because they occupied a larger proportion of population at that time. Mao manipulated people’s mindset by instilled people with communist value and ideals. (Guo,2013) People were easily controlled and influenced at that time for having not much education and more importantly communism was promoted as

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution can be seen primarily as Mao’s pursuit for ideological purity. However, it was the ‘revisionist’ developments in the economic, political and cultural sphere that led Mao to seek national rectification through revolution. Mao’s global outlook meant that “no revolution was an island” (Moise, 1994, p. 151), indeed from the moment Khrushchev gave the ‘secret speech’ in 1956 Mao grew increasingly vigilant and responded by turning ‘left’ in domestic and foreign policy (MacFarquhar & Schoenhals, 2008). His fear of the encroachment of revisionism on the Chinese Revolution found validation in the increasingly palpable division within party leadership on the liberalisation of economic policy from 1959-62, the issue of Sino-soviet rapprochement in response to the Vietnam war and the increasing Party allowance of anti-Maoist influences in the cultural arena. In the end, what manifest as a power struggle amongst the upper party leadership, was in Mao’s eyes, a struggle between two roads, one capitalist and the other communist (Tung, 1964). Thus, any opposition encountered by Mao was viewed with increasing suspicion for it marked a dangerous diversion from ‘true’ Marxist-Leninist ideals. It is hence in this sense of imminent crisis of counter-revolution that Mao found conviction for the need for what Baum (1971) termed ‘ideological revivalism’ in order to “immunize the Chinese population from the pernicious weed of revisionism” (p. 67).

Huang Shu-min generates evidence that the concern for family was a major contributor to the stabilization of the peasant social life along with their “feudalistic practices”. The leaders of the Chinese Communism depended on the unwavering support of the peasants in order to gain revolutionary success. Being unsuccessful in their attempts in a classless society, China was also unsuccessful in abolishing “feudalistic practices”. These practices had a significant impact on the diminishing faith because it had morphed into the peasants’ daily lives. My main concern was why wasn’t there a rebellion for the constant changes? The peasants were the main contributors to the national budget, but after time progresses, they grudgingly accept the policy

In China the Cultural Revolution was a major key in it’s history due to the privileges lost, for example music was drastically changed as you were only able to listen to the propaganda used by the incredibly corrupt government, art and literature was also changed just living in china during this time was just terrible to begin with. Chairman Mao was the man to change everything in china during the Cultural Revolution to support and promote his propaganda. Millions of innocent people were persecuted in the violent struggles of this wretched country, people were treated unfairly, beaten into pulps, humiliated in the eye of the public, tortured like animals. These were just some horrible things that happened during these troubling times let me

In China’s Cultural Revolution, many causes added to the genocide taking place. A vast majority of the causes had to do with political complications between Mao Zedong and other political figures. For instance, Mao didn’t like any ideologies that went in contradiction of communism (Lamb 1). He also didn’t like anyone opposing him, gaining popularity (Li 2). Since Mao became so close minded on his beliefs, it led him to accept as true that only certain people, those who shared his views on communism, be worthy of life. This

Mao Zedong rose to power in 1949 founding the People’s Republic Of China. His plan the Great Leap Foward to make China on par with other powerful countries had failed miserably. After the failure of The Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong’s positioning in the government had weakened. To regain total control over the government, Mao Zedong launched what was called the Cultural Revolution. There is no words for how The Cultural Revolution impacted China. This major event is viewed as China’s cruel history because of the terrorism of the Red Guards, the attacks on the old generation, and the well educated population, and the death of 20 millions people. To this day, Mao Zedong’s legacy still remains.

China is considered to be a democratic system however it has always heavily been ran by Communist parties. This used to be successful, China was considered to be the largest and most advanced economy all the way up to the 19th century. Their economy began to slow, then stagnate, and then eventually begin to decline after the beginning of the 19th century. They had a small up rise in the 1930’s however continued to decline thereafter. Chinese government attempted to run China through a planned economy system however this method did not work efficiently at all and left the Chinese economy stagnated. In 1949, Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party, also known as chairman Mao believed in Marxist- Leninest theories, unique military strategies and different political policies. Mao Zedong attempted a Great Leap forward in which he attempted to rapidly transform China’s economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one. This change did not pan out, leading to a massive famine killing nearly 20 million and his government position weakening. The Cultural Revolution was initiated in 1966 by Mao Zedong as a way to attack current party leadership and argued for the reemergence of capitalist traits as well as reinstate his power. Mao Zedong attempted to move China’s party system away from the current political party system due to the fact that he believed it was steering China in the wrong direction. His revolution included shutting down schools and the organization of Red Guard

The ten-year Cultural Revolution, in essence, was a political power struggle inside of the CCP, and as Mao died on September 9 1976, the Gang of Four was arrested soon on October 10. Since Mao’s successor Hua Guofeng was politically weak, Deng Xiaoping came back to power. Though the new leaders tried to help China recover from the revolution and rebuild the economic systems, the influences of the revolution did not vanish quickly. The Party had to deal with the mistakes that Mao made during the revolution, make the resolution on the revolution, and formulated the new road that the country should follow. Other than the political struggles that the Party faced, the society also created troubles. The intellectuals, especially the sent-down youths who illegally came back to cities, were excited and looking forward to a democratic government, and they again started to criticize the government and commented on the politics just like their predecessors did in the Hundred Flowers Campaign. However, this situation did not satisfy Deng, who emphasized that the correct line for China was to insist the absolute principle of the Party (Meisner, 457), and he then decided to consolidate his power. In general, though Cultural Revolution ended, the political struggles that it represented never stopped, and would be continued for years.

The Cultural Revolution, launched by Chairman Mao Zedong in the mid-1960s, dramatically transformed Chinese society. Paul Byrne (2012 p.80) suggests that as the Cultural Revolution continued to transform China, a cult of personality was built around Mao; anyone who questioned his wisdom was an enemy of the people. The Cultural Revolution was a period of time where anything capitalist or western was brutally destroyed. The Cultural Revolution aimed to destroy ‘The Four Olds’ these being, old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. This was to bring the areas of education, art and literature in line with Communist ideology (Ebrey, n.d, para. 2). Chairman Mao used a youth army called ‘The Red Guards’ to carry out the task of destruction and anyone who represented the old culture of China or did not fully support Mao and the Communist Revolution were targeted (Byrne, 2012, p.81). Li Cunxin was born into a poor peasant family and from his perspective the Cultural Revolution impacted all areas of his life. Li like millions of other children of his generation had their education, career, opportunities, voice and beliefs censored and recreated to idolise Mao Zedong and the countries strong communist ideas.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was an evidence of Communism’s strength because a vast majority of the economic and educational reforms were carried out successfully. By introducing a new school system and eradicating profit incentives, it enabled Mao to spread its communism ideologies into practice in China. For instance, instead of teaching children science and humanities, Mao encouraged schools to teach what’s more important, the Little Red Book, which were Mao’s maxim regarding revolutionary passion and good behavior. Moreover, thoughts, culture, habits, and culture from the past that did not belong with Mao’s communism ideologies were also eliminated. In other words, with

The history of modern China starts on October 1st of 1949 with the victory by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War and the consequently proclamation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by Mao Zedong . From 1949 until 1976, Mao started to implement in China his idea of a communist society with a centrally controlled economy based on the Soviet model. In order to achieve the massive changes towards the implementation of communism, he developed several ambitious projects, guided by the Five-Year Plans that included the Great Leap Forward, started in 1958, and the Cultural Revolution (between 1966 and 1976). It’s estimated that the implementation of the Maoist ideals was responsible for more than 65 million deaths in China, mostly by forced

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a social-political movement of Mao Zedong from 1966 until 1976. His vision was to promote the “true” Communist ideology, which aimed to develop China into a utopia country. According to the “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, so-called the “Little Red Book”, he once said, “The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you.” This mechanism led the

In 1960s, the wave of revolution spread all over the world, as well in China. It is said that China was experiencing an energetic and fanatical revolution from 1966 to 1976 called “Culture Revolution” which was directed against some specific fields of Culture such as foreign capitalism literature and traditional customs.