Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two years ago this week, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the first wall poster, dripping with vitriol, blossomed on the east wall of Peking University's dining hall. Fearful that China was losing the purity of its first revolution and sliding down "the capitalist road" taken...
Mao's purge is still in progress. Radio Shanghai recently announced that seven "renegades and active counterrevolutionary criminals" had been executed while 10,000 Maoist onlookers "shouted slogans at the top of their voices, rejoicing and clapping their hands." Despite such salutary lessons, however, Mao has been unable to...
Local Loyalties. Just before the Cultural Revolution began, Peking had published an official list of the 26 top men in China. Today, only 13 remain in office, the rest having been purged and ousted from responsibility, ranging from Liu Shao-chi to Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching. Among...
Dreary Standstill. Despite Mao's order to reopen the schools last year, many are still closed; those that are open teach little more than Maoist slogans. China's cultural life has been brought to a dreary standstill by the Cultural Revolution; not a single book of any major...
"If only we can have the revolution finished by June..." a well dressed man in a business suit was saying behind you, as you sat down in the only available space in the aisle.